Agarwal Aashita, Singh Lakshita, Atri Mansi, Gupta Mayank, Sharma Abhimanyu, Passi Deepak
Aloki Hospital, Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, India.
Department of Public Health Dentistry, ESIC Dental College & Hospital, Rohini, Delhi, India.
J Family Med Prim Care. 2020 Oct 30;9(10):5271-5275. doi: 10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_34_20. eCollection 2020 Oct.
To assess the prevalence of tobacco consumption among the ESI-insured patients. The study also assessed the knowledge, practice, and attitude among industrial workers as well as nicotine dependence with different forms of tobacco products consumed.
A cross-sectional study was conducted among industrial workers from various industries (small and large scale) insured under the employee state insurance corporation scheme. The study was conducted for 3 months included 500 workers of which 470 were males and 30 were females. A predesigned, pretested, and structured interviewed administered questionnaire was used to collect the data on sociodemographic factors, reasons for tobacco consumed, and level of dependencies among industrial workers. Questionnaire also included questions related to awareness regarding health hazards and lesion present in the oral cavity as a result of tobacco consumption. Fegarstrom scale was used to access nicotine dependency level. A Hindi translated version of Fegarstrom test for Nicotine dependence in the questionnaire was used which included six standard questions for both smokeless and smoked form.
Majority of both males and females consumed tobacco in smokeless (58.8%) form. Out of which 92.85% in males and 7.15% in females followed by the smoke (28.8%) form. 93.04% in males and (7%) in females (79.86%) of the tobacco users in our study were aware that consuming tobacco causes health related problems. 38.6% of the users have moderate dependency in both smoke and smokeless form. Seventy six percent of the consumers feel that they didn't have any changes in the mouth by consuming tobacco and thus never thought of quitting tobacco.
Tobacco consumption among the ESI-insured patients is high. Execution of tobacco cessation programs are required to curb this trend.
评估参加职工国家保险（ESI）的患者中烟草消费的流行情况。该研究还评估了产业工人的知识、行为和态度，以及他们对所消费的不同形式烟草制品的尼古丁依赖情况。
对参加职工国家保险计划的来自不同行业（包括小型和大型企业）的产业工人进行了一项横断面研究。该研究为期3个月，共纳入500名工人，其中470名男性，30名女性。采用预先设计、预先测试且结构化的访谈问卷来收集有关社会人口学因素、吸烟原因以及产业工人的依赖程度的数据。问卷还包括与烟草消费对健康危害的认识以及口腔病变相关的问题。使用法格斯特龙量表来评估尼古丁依赖程度。问卷中使用了法格斯特龙尼古丁依赖测试的印地语翻译版本，其中包括针对无烟和吸烟形式的六个标准问题。
大多数男性和女性都消费无烟形式的烟草（58.8%）。其中男性占92.85%，女性占7.15%，其次是吸烟形式（28.8%）。在我们的研究中，93.04%的男性和7%的女性（79.86%的烟草使用者）意识到消费烟草会导致健康相关问题。38.6%的使用者对吸烟和无烟形式都有中度依赖。76%的消费者认为他们吸烟后口腔没有任何变化，因此从未想过戒烟。
参加职工国家保险的患者中烟草消费率较高。需要实施戒烟计划来遏制这一趋势。
