Lefkoşa’daki bir üniversitenin İngilizce programındaki tıp öğrencilerinin sigara içme durumu

Year 2019, Volume: 17 Issue: 1, 50 - 64, 30.04.2019

Özen Aşut , Songül Vaizoğlu , Rami Y Sadeh Bashar Alaber Mariam Jabaly Mohammad Laila Ahmed Al Zuwawi Mohammad Fs Shatnawi Wadee Js Mezher Sanda Cali

Abstract

Amaç: Bu araştırmanın
amacı tıp öğrencilerinin sigara içme durumunu ve ilişkili etmenleri
belirlemektir. Yöntem: Lefkoşa, Kuzey
Kıbrıs’ta bulunanYakın Doğu Üniversitesi İngilizce Tıp programında kayıtlı 566
tıp öğrencisi arasında kesitsel bir araştırma yürütülmüştür. Öğrencilere 20
soruluk bir anket uygulanarak yaşam boyu ve halen sigara içme durumu ve
ilişkili etmenler araştırıldı. Veriler SPSS 18.0.0. programı ile
değerlendirildi. Tanımlayıcı istatistikler hesaplanarak marjinal ve çapraz
tablolar hazırlandı. Önemli kabul edilen p değeri <0.05 idi. Bulgular: Ankete yanıt hızı %80.6 (566 öğrencinin 456’sı) bulundu.
Yaşam boyu sigara içme hızı %47.7%, (erkeklerde %60.3, kadınlarda %35.6) ve
halen sigara içme hızı %32.7% (erkeklerde %42.4, kadınlarda %23.4) olarak saptanmıştır;
sigara içenlerin %41.3’ü sigaraya tıp fakültesine girdikten sonra
başlamışlardır. Sonuç: Tıp
öğrencilerindeki sigara içme prevalansı yüksektir. Tıp eğitiminin İngilizce tıp
öğrencilerinin sigara içme durumuna etkili olmadığı izlenimi edinilmiştir.

Keywords

Sigara içme, tıp öğrencileri, tıp eğitimi

Smoking status of medical students in the English program of a university in Nicosia

Abstract

Objectives: The objective of this study was to determine the
status of smoking among medical students and related factors. Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted
among the total 566 medical students enrolled in the English program of the
Near East University, Faculty of Medicine in Nicosia, Northern Cyprus. A
questionnaire of 20 questions was handed out to the students to find out about
their smoking status (lifetime and current smoking), and related factors. The
data were analyzed using SPSS 18.0.0. For the analyzed parameters, descriptive
statistics were calculated and marginal and cross tables were prepared. The p
value accepted as significant was p<0.05. Results: The response rate was 80.6% (456 of 566 students).
Lifetime smoking rate was 47.7%, (60.3% of for male students, 35.6% for female
students) and current smoking rate was 32.7% (42.4 % for male students, 23.4%
for female students); 41.3% of the smokers had started smoking after admission
to medical school. Conclusions: The
smoking prevalence among medical students was high. Medical education did not
seem to be influential on the smoking status among students of the English
program of the medical school.

Keywords

Smoking, Medical students, Medical education

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