NICOTINE DEPENDENCE LEVEL OF UNIVERSITY STUDENTS RELATING TO TYPE OF EDUCATION AND GENDER

Songül DOĞANAY; Ayla Eren ÖZDEMİR; Şeyma TRABZON

doi:https://doi.org/10.23884/ijhsrp.2017.2.2.06

Article Details

NICOTINE DEPENDENCE LEVEL OF UNIVERSITY STUDENTS RELATING TO TYPE OF EDUCATION AND GENDER

Authors:

Songül DOĞANAY | Ayla Eren ÖZDEMİR | Şeyma TRABZON

Publisher:

Rojan GÜMÜŞ

Main Topics:

Promotion of health

Journal:

International Journal of Health Services Research and Policy 2017 Vol.2 Issue 2, pp.74-79

Document Type:

Article

Publication Date:

12/2017

Document Language:

English

Document ID (Org No.):

2000465717

Frequency:

Tri-annual

eISSN:

2602-3482

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.23884/ijhsrp.2017.2.2.06

Abstract:

 


Smoking is an
increasingly important public health problem because of the health problems it
causes. We aimed to investigate whether there is a relationship between
nicotine addiction level, education type and gender in  vocational school of health services students
who smoke in the study.





This descriptive
study was conducted with first and second year university students studying in
various associate degree programs in health field. In the study, questionnaire
forms were used to determine sociodemographic conditions prepared with
scientific support as data collection tool. Nicotine dependence was determined
by the Fagerström nicotine dependence test (FNBT). A total of 72 students
attending 34 daytime education and 38 nighttime education courses participated
in the research. 47 of the participants were female(% 65.3)  and 25 (%34.7) male. In our study, 57 of the
students are between the ages of 17-20 and the remaining 15 are over 21 years
old. 29 of the participants in the study were low-level addicts, 34 were
moderately addicts, and 9 were high-level nicotine addicts. When the
inter-gender dependency levels are examined, 58.8% of the female students and
41.2% of the male students are moderately addicted. 52.6% of evening education
students are moderately dependent, 41.2% of daytime education students are
moderately and lowly dependent. There was no statistically significant
difference between gender, type of education and nicotine addiction. There was
no significant difference between the level of dependence, education type and
gender in nicotine dependence level study using FNBT. The addiction rate was
also higher for women. Most of the students who had nighttime learning were
mostly moderate nicotine addicts.


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Article Details

NICOTINE DEPENDENCE LEVEL OF UNIVERSITY STUDENTS RELATING TO TYPE OF EDUCATION AND GENDER

Authors: Songül DOĞANAY | Ayla Eren ÖZDEMİR | Şeyma TRABZON

Publisher: Rojan GÜMÜŞ

Main Topics: Promotion of health

Journal: International Journal of Health Services Research and Policy 2017 Vol.2 Issue 2, pp.74-79

Document Type: Article

Publication Date: 12/2017

Document Language: English

Document ID (Org No.): 2000465717

Frequency: Tri-annual

eISSN: 2602-3482

DOI: https://doi.org/10.23884/ijhsrp.2017.2.2.06

Issues

Authors:

Songül DOĞANAY | Ayla Eren ÖZDEMİR | Şeyma TRABZON

Publisher:

Rojan GÜMÜŞ

Main Topics:

Promotion of health

Journal:

International Journal of Health Services Research and Policy 2017 Vol.2 Issue 2, pp.74-79

Document Type:

Article

Publication Date:

12/2017

Document Language:

English

Document ID (Org No.):

2000465717

Frequency:

Tri-annual

eISSN:

2602-3482

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.23884/ijhsrp.2017.2.2.06