Awareness and use of electronic cigarettes: Perceptions of health science programme students in Malaysia.
Objectives: In recent years, electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS) or e-cigarettes appear to be gaining in popularity despite controversy over their health effects and public health impacts. This paper is the first in Malaysia to assess sociodemographic and behavioural characteristics associat...
| Publicado en: | Health Education Journal Vol. 76; no. 8; pp. 1000 - 1009 |
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Sage Publications Inc.
Dec2017
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=126458740&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ccm uiTerm: 126458740 longDbName: CINAHL Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: dissinfo: jinfo: jid: 00178969 7S2 jtl: Health Education Journal issn: 00178969 maglogo: Y pubinfo: dt: Dec2017 vid: 76 iid: 8 pid: 344 pub: Sage Publications Inc. place: Thousand Oaks, California artinfo: ui: 126458740 126458740 126458740 10.1177/0017896917732363 126458740 ppf: 1000 ppct: 9 formats: tig: atl: Awareness and use of electronic cigarettes: Perceptions of health science programme students in Malaysia. aug: au: Goh, Yin Hoong Dujaili, Juman Abdulelah Blebil, Ali Qais Ahmed, Syed Imran affil: Department of Pharmacy Practice, School of Pharmacy, International Medical University, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia sug: subj: Students, Medical Malaysia Electronic Cigarettes Utilization Health Knowledge Evaluation Schools, Medical Malaysia Human Female Male Descriptive Statistics Data Analysis Software P-Value Confidence Intervals Odds Ratio Chi Square Test Adolescence Adult Malaysia Self Report Questionnaires Internet Cross Sectional Studies Funding Source Adolescent: 13-18 years Adult: 19-44 years Female Male ab: Objectives: In recent years, electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS) or e-cigarettes appear to be gaining in popularity despite controversy over their health effects and public health impacts. This paper is the first in Malaysia to assess sociodemographic and behavioural characteristics associated with ENDS awareness, perceptions and use among students enrolled in health science programmes. Design: Online self-reported use and perceptions of ENDS were assessed using a cross-sectional design. Setting: The study was conducted at the International Medical University, Malaysia. Method: An anonymous Internet-based, cross-sectional survey was conducted among a cohort of 404 undergraduate students at International Medical University, Malaysia, in September 2016. Data were collected over a period of 6 weeks. A 31-question web-based survey was developed to assess sociodemographic and behavioural characteristics associated with ENDS awareness, perceptions and use. Logistic regression analysis was performed to assess the impact of a set of predictors on e-cigarette use. Results: Almost 95% of respondents were aware of e-cigarettes, 13.8% reported ever-use and students had varied perceptions towards e-cigarettes. Characteristics associated with greater likelihood of ever-use included gender, ethnicity and parents educational level. Other correlates included prior conventional cigarette smoking, prior hookah smoking, parents’ tobacco use and higher sensation-seeking behaviour total score. Conclusion: In this sample of young adults, e-cigarette awareness was high and ever-use was evident especially among ever cigarette smokers. Nearly half of ever-users had not used an e-cigarette in the past 30 days of the survey and mostly reported flavoured over unflavoured e-cigarette use. These findings highlight the importance of e-cigarette surveillance and health promotion interventions targeting young adults. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: research tables/charts Journal Article ougenre: Article language: English refInfo: holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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