Srivastava Shalini, Mahajan Harsh, Jindal Manisha, Dohare Sunil, Khurana Shweta
Department of Community Medicine, School of Medical Sciences and Research, Sharda University, Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India.
Department of Physiology, School of Medical Sciences and Research, Sharda University, Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India.
J Family Med Prim Care. 2022 Jul;11(7):3559-3564. doi: 10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_2135_21. Epub 2022 Jul 22.
Tobacco use is the leading single preventable cause of deaths worldwide. India is the second largest consumer of tobacco in the world.
To study the prevalence of tobacco use among the adult population >15 years age of District Gautam-Budh Nagar and find the association of various socio-demographic factors with the tobacco usage.
Cross-sectional community-based study conducted in urban and rural areas of District Gautam-Budh Nagar, Uttar-Pradesh.
The study was conducted among 1461 adults aged 15 years and above in the District Gautam-Budh Nagar. Multistage sampling was used to select the study subjects. The questionnaire used for the interview consisted of questions related to socio-demographic profile, smoking habits and smokeless tobacco use, intention to quit and exposure to second-hand smoke.
The data were entered and analyzed in SPSS Software version 20.0. The prevalence of tobacco use was expressed in percentages. The association between various socio-demographic factors and tobacco use was assessed by Chi-square test. value < 0.05 was taken as significant.
Prevalence of tobacco usage in this study was found to be 50.4% (65% among males and 28.8% among females). The prevalence of smoking and smokeless tobacco use in our study was 37.2% and 21.3%, respectively. Increasing age, male gender, and lower educational status were found to be significant risk factors for tobacco use in our study.
India needs to gear up the efforts more and can still do more to make the proven tobacco control tools work for its citizens' well-being.
烟草使用是全球单一可预防的首要死因。印度是世界第二大烟草消费国。
研究古塔姆 - 布德讷格尔地区15岁以上成年人群中烟草使用的流行情况，并找出各种社会人口学因素与烟草使用之间的关联。
在北方邦古塔姆 - 布德讷格尔地区的城乡开展的基于社区的横断面研究。
该研究在古塔姆 - 布德讷格尔地区1461名15岁及以上的成年人中进行。采用多阶段抽样来选择研究对象。用于访谈的问卷包括与社会人口学特征、吸烟习惯和无烟烟草使用、戒烟意愿以及二手烟暴露相关的问题。
数据录入SPSS 20.0软件进行分析。烟草使用的流行率以百分比表示。通过卡方检验评估各种社会人口学因素与烟草使用之间的关联。P值<0.05被视为具有统计学意义。
本研究中烟草使用的流行率为50.4%（男性为65%，女性为28.8%）。我们研究中吸烟和无烟烟草使用的流行率分别为37.2%和21.3%。在我们的研究中，年龄增长、男性性别和较低的教育程度被发现是烟草使用的重要危险因素。
印度需要加大力度，并且仍有更多工作可做，以使已证实的烟草控制措施造福其公民。
