Socio-demographic factors associated with smoking habits among university students in Belgrade, Serbia
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Article Category: Original scientific article
Published Online: Jan 21, 2019
Page range: 11 - 20
Received: Apr 26, 2018
Accepted: Nov 26, 2018
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/sjph-2019-0002
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Smoking behaviours and motives of students who smoked per faculty group.
| Smoking behaviours and motives | FACULTY GROUP (%) | P (Behaviours & motives / Faculty group) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MF | TOTAL NMF | SSHF | NSMF | TESF | TOTAL | ||
| In elementary school | 9.0 | 8.7 | 8.1 | 15.2 | 8.3 | 8.7 | 0.555 |
| In high school | 62.8 | 66.6 | 66.9 | 54.3 | 68.5 | 66.2 | |
| At faculty | 28.2 | 24.7 | 24.9 | 30.4 | 23.2 | 25.1 | |
| Less than a year | 10.3 | 13.4 | 11.5 | 28.3 | 13.5 | 13.1 | 0.068 |
| 1–5 years | 71.8 | 67.1 | 67.5 | 58.7 | 68.0 | 67.6 | |
| Over 5 years | 17.9 | 19.5 | 21.0 | 13.0 | 18.4 | 19.3 | |
| No | 34.6 | 29.8 | 28.2 | 18.2 | 34.6 | 30.4 | 0.084 |
| Yes | 65.4 | 70.2 | 71.8 | 81.8 | 65.4 | 69.6 | |
| One smok | 23.1 | 27.6 | 29.5 | 25.0 | 25.1 | 27.1 | 0.088 |
| Two smokers | 20.5 | 28.5 | 29.0 | 34.1 | 26.7 | 27.6 | |
| Three smokers | 7.7 | 7.3 | 7.8 | 13.6 | 5.3 | 7.3 | |
| More than three smokers | 14.1 | 6.8 | 5.6 | 9.1 | 8.2 | 7.6 | |
| Stress | 15.5 | 15.7 | 16.1 | 18.8 | 15.2 | 15.9 | 0.111 |
| Peer influence | 37.9 | 36.3 | 37.8 | 34.4 | 34.3 | 36.5 | |
| Pleasure and party | 15.5 | 14.7 | 16.8 | 3.1 | 13.5 | 14.8 | |
| Personal attitude/choice | 31.0 | 27.2 | 24.5 | 43.8 | 28.1 | 27.4 | |
| I do not know/remember | 0.0 | 6.0 | 4.9 | 0.0 | 9.0 | 5.4 | |
| Yes | 52.6 | 43.3 | 44.1 | 34.9 | 43.6 | 44.3 | 0.289 |
| No | 47.4 | 56.7 | 55.9 | 65.1 | 56.4 | 55.7 | |
Distribution of students by sociodemographic characteristics and faculty group.
| Faculty Group / Sociodemographic characteristics | MF (n=329) 12.6% | TOTAL NMF (n=2,279) 87.4% | SSHF (n=1,225) 47% | NSMF (n=200) 7.7% | TESF (n=854) 32.7% | TOTAL (n=2,608) 100% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Female | 63.5 | 59.1 | 68.9 | 66.0 | 43.3 | 59.6 |
| Male | 36.5 | 40.9 | 31.1 | 34.0 | 56.7 | 40.4 |
| 24.3±1.6 | 23.7±2.7 | 24.2±2.9 | 23.3±1.8 | 23.2±2.5 | 23.8±2.6 | |
| I | 9.4 | 22.2 | 17.4 | 24.2 | 28.5 | 20.5 |
| II | 18.9 | 22.6 | 16.9 | 30.4 | 29.0 | 22.1 |
| III | 52.5 | 24.5 | 26.2 | 21.6 | 22.8 | 28.1 |
| IV | 14.5 | 21.0 | 27.6 | 20.1 | 11.9 | 20.2 |
| V | 4.7 | 9.7 | 12.0 | 3.6 | 7.9 | 9.1 |
Smoking status of students by faculty group and by gender.
| Faculty Group | Smoking status | P (Gender/Smoking status) | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Non-smokers | Ex-smokers | Smokers | TOTAL | |||||||
| n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | |||
| Female | 149 | 71.3 | 6 | 2.9 | 54 | 25.8 | 209 | 8.0 | ||
| Male | 79 | 65.8 | 8 | 6.7 | 33 | 27.5 | 120 | 4.6 | 0.224 | |
| Female | 517 | 61.3 | 46 | 5.5 | 281 | 33.3 | 844 | 32.4 | 0.029 | |
| Male | 230 | 60.4 | 36 | 9.4 | 115 | 30.2 | 381 | 14.6 | ||
| Female | 90 | 68.2 | 4 | 3.0 | 38 | 28.8 | 132 | 5.1 | ||
| Male | 51 | 75.0 | 2 | 2.9 | 15 | 22.1 | 68 | 2.6 | 0.587 | |
| Female | 235 | 63.5 | 23 | 6.2 | 112 | 30.3 | 370 | 14.2 | ||
| Male | 310 | 64.0 | 26 | 5.4 | 148 | 30.6 | 484 | 18.6 | 0.871 | |
| 228 | 69.3 | 14 | 4.3 | 87 | 26.4 | 329 | 12.6 | 0.066 | ||
| 1433 | 62.9 | 137 | 6.0 | 709 | 31.1 | 2279 | 87.4 | |||
| 991 | 63.7 | 79 | 5.1 | 485 | 31.2 | 1555 | 59.6 | 0.141 | ||
| 670 | 63.6 | 72 | 6.8 | 311 | 29.5 | 1053 | 40.4 | |||
| 1661 | 63.7 | 151 | 5.8 | 796 | 30.5 | 2608 | 100.0 | |||
Smoking status and sociodemographic characteristics of students.
| Predictors | Pearson’s χ2test | P value | Statistically significant influence of predictors on smoking status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.9 | 0.141 | - | |
| 15.1 | 0.001 | Ex-smokers – ≤25 | |
| Ex-smokers – >25 | |||
| 14.4 | 0.025 | Smoking status – MF and SSHF | |
| Smoking status – NSMF and SSHF | |||
| 5.4 | 0.066 | - | |
| 8.2 | 0.411 | - |
Smoking experiences and attitudes of students by sociodemographic characteristics, faculty group and smoking status.
| Predictors | Experience / Attitude | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Attendance to tobacco industry sponsored event | Supporting the smoking ban | Compliance with the smoking ban at my faculty | There is a sufficiently broad debate about the harmful effects of smoking at my faculty | Adequate public health training is provided at my faculty | ||||||
| % | p | % | p | % | p | % | p | % | p | |
| Female | 18.1 | 0.001 | 78.8 | <0.001 | 61.7 | 0.251 | 11.5 | 0.377 | 12.2 | 0.066 |
| Male | 24.1 | 72.9 | 60.7 | 13.0 | 15.2 | |||||
| ≤25 | 18.6 | <0.001 | 75.4 | 0.018 | 60.9 | 0.091 | 11.7 | 0.179 | 13.3 | 0.415 |
| >25 | 30.1 | 81.5 | 62.8 | 14.2 | 13.5 | |||||
| MF | 16.8 | 83.5 | 57.2 | 35.8 | 41.1 | |||||
| SSHF | 22.5 | 0.256 | 75.1 | 0.001 | 65.2 | <0.001 | 8.2 | <0.001 | 7.5 | <0.001 |
| NSMF | 19.6 | 81.8 | 57.7 | 13.6 | 13.6 | |||||
| TESF | 19.3 | 74.2 | 58.1 | 8.2 | 11.1 | |||||
| I | 15.0 | 70.3 | 62.1 | 11.4 | 14.7 | |||||
| II | 18.3 | 75.0 | 65.0 | 9.2 | 10.5 | |||||
| III | 19.0 | <0.001 | 76.7 | 0.001 | 53.9 | 0.005 | 16.3 | <0.001 | 16.7 | <0.001 |
| IV | 25.7 | 81.3 | 64.8 | 11.5 | 11.1 | |||||
| V | 28.9 | 84.2 | 63.2 | 10.5 | 10.7 | |||||
| Non-smokers | 18.2 | 83.4 | 60.7 | 11.6 | 14.1 | |||||
| Ex-smokers | 28.7 | 0.002 | 75.8 | <0.001 | 59.7 | 0.011 | 8.7 | 0.002 | 11.6 | 0.061 |
| Smokers | 23.7 | 62.1 | 62.8 | 13.9 | 12.4 | |||||
| Total | 20.5 | 76.4 | 61.3 | 12.1 | 13.4 | |||||