Assessment of prevalence, predictors, reasons and regulations of substance smoking among children in Ghana.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In Ghana, it is against the law for children to smoke. Nevertheless, a portion of children in the country do smoke. However, there is a paucity of research on young smokers in Ghana and other sub-Saharan African nations. This study, therefore, investigated the prevalence of smoking, the kinds of substances children smoke, predictors of smoking, reasons for and factors that lead children to smoke, and regulation of smoking among children in Ghana.

Methods

In total, 5024 children aged 8-17 were studied using a cross-sectional convergent parallel mixed method. Descriptive statistics, Person's Chi-square test, Fisher Exact test, and binary logistic regression were used to analyse the quantitative data. In contrast, thematic analysis was used to analyse the qualitative

SUBMITTER: Kyei-Gyamfi S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10655291 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature