Exploring Cognitive and Behavioral Changes Related to Smoking Among Medical Students in Saudi Arabia: A Cross-Sectional Study
Mohammed A. Aljunaid, Safa Abdullah Mehdar, Haneen Saud Bukhari, Rafal Hussain AlSharif, Rawaf Hussain AlSharif, Shahad AlHarbi · 2024
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Mohammed Aljunaid and five colleagues surveyed medical students in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, about smoking attitudes and behavior. Future doctors who smoke undermine their own health advice. The cross-sectional study ran from September to November twenty twenty-three. It covered 213 students from second to sixth year at several universities, using an adapted World Health Organization questionnaire online. About thirty-one percent had ever smoked, and about twenty-two percent currently smoked.
Among ever-smokers, forty-three percent started during college, mostly in the second year. Stress, curiosity, and peer influence were the common triggers. Two-thirds had thought about quitting, and over half had seriously tried. A third had never considered quitting at all. The twenty twenty-four study identifies the college years as the intervention window for this high-knowledge, high-risk group.
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| CREATOR | Mohammed A. Aljunaid, Safa Abdullah Mehdar, Haneen Saud Bukhari, Rafal Hussain AlSharif, Rawaf Hussain AlSharif, Shahad AlHarbi |
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| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 40 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |