جستجوی مقالات مرتبط با کلیدواژه « علل » در نشریات گروه « بهداشت و درمان »

Introduction & Smoking as a risk factor to health is one of the most problematic health problems of Iran and other parts of the world. Tendency for smoking among youths may increase other risk factor such as drug abuse among them, and due to this factor, smoking is regarded as the first step towards addiction to drugs. The present study aims to determine the prevalence of smoking and its related factors in Kohgiloyeh and Boyer-Ahmad province, Iran. In this study, 3749 people from Kohgiloyeh and Boyer Ahmad population were chosen as the study sample by cluster random sampling method. A questionnaire was used as the data collection tool. The gathered data was analyzed by the SPSS software using chi-square test. In this study, the prevalence of smoking was 11% (411) and 46.1% (604) had a smoker father and 27.5% (360) had a smoking brother, 64.9% (263) were middle-aged smokers (p<0.0001) and 68.8% (44) Smokers had used drugs (p<0.0001). In this study, 36.7% (162) had blamed their smoking friends, and 26.5% (108persons) had mentioned starting smoking for fun. In this study, 64% (263) smokers associated smoking with their mother's death (p<0.0001) and 21% (86) with their disease (p<0.0001) and 19% (78) with the death of their first-degree relatives (p<0.002). In this study, the role of friends and peer groups andfamily problems were considered important factors related to smoking. The role of parents, teaching life skills to both parents and family members may secure the family environment and therefore prevent the trend for smoking among family members.