Department of Surgery, Hamad General Hospital, Doha, Qatar.
College of Medicine, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar.
Cent Eur J Public Health. 2021 Mar;29(1):45-55. doi: 10.21101/cejph.a6576.
The current study employed socio-demographic, health and lifestyle, and academic variables to assess the prevalence and independent predictors of daily smoking, attempts to quit smoking, and agreement with total smoking ban at university.
Students at the University of Turku (1,177) completed an online questionnaire that assessed socio-demographic, health and lifestyle, and academic characteristics, and three smoking variables (smoking, attempts to quit, agreement with total smoking ban at university). Bivariate relationships and multiple logistic regression assessed relationships between student characteristics and the three smoking variables before and after controlling for all other variables.
Slightly < 80% of students never smoked, 16% were occasional, and about 6% were daily smokers, and about 40% had attempted to quit. Nearly half the sample agreed to total smoking ban at university. Physical activity, consuming alcohol, illicit drug/s use and daily smoking were significant independent predictors across > 1 of the three smoking variables. Age, health awareness, importance of achieving good grades, academic performance compared to peers, study burden, and mother's educational level were significant independent predictors of one of the three variables examined.
Universities need to assess smoking, with specific focus on the modifiable independent predictors that were associated with > 1 the variables examined, to encourage physical activity and pay attention to reduce alcohol consumption and illicit drug/s and daily smoking, whilst targeting at-risk students. University strategies should be part of the wider country-wide effective tobacco control policies.
本研究采用社会人口学、健康和生活方式以及学术变量来评估大学生中每日吸烟、戒烟尝试和支持大学全面禁烟的流行率及其独立预测因素。
图尔库大学的学生（1177 人）完成了一份在线问卷，该问卷评估了社会人口学、健康和生活方式以及学术特征，以及三个吸烟变量（吸烟、戒烟尝试和支持大学全面禁烟）。在控制所有其他变量之前和之后，使用双变量关系和多逻辑回归评估了学生特征与三个吸烟变量之间的关系。
略低于 80%的学生从不吸烟，16%的学生偶尔吸烟，约 6%的学生是每日吸烟者，约 40%的学生曾试图戒烟。近一半的样本支持大学全面禁烟。体育活动、饮酒、非法药物/使用和每日吸烟是三个吸烟变量中超过一个的重要独立预测因素。年龄、健康意识、取得好成绩的重要性、与同龄人相比的学业表现、学习负担和母亲的教育水平是三个被检查变量之一的重要独立预测因素。
大学需要评估吸烟情况，特别关注与三个被检查变量中的一个或多个相关的可改变的独立预测因素，以鼓励体育活动，并注意减少饮酒、非法药物/使用和每日吸烟，同时针对高风险学生。大学策略应成为更广泛的全国有效烟草控制政策的一部分。
