Conducting tobacco control surveys among schoolchildren in Bangladesh, India and Pakistan: A feasibility study.

ABSTRACT: Most of the world's 300 million smokeless tobacco (ST) users live in South Asia but ST policies for that region are poorly researched, developed and implemented. Longitudinal studies to understand the uptake and use of ST and smoking, and influences on these, such as health promotion strategies, are lacking. We planned to conduct longitudinal surveys among secondary school students in three countries with the highest ST burden: Bangladesh, India and Pakistan to explore ST and smoking uptake, use and health promoting strategies. Before running that longitudinal study, we assessed the feasibility of conducting such a multi country survey using a mixed-methods design. The survey (and feasibility study) was conducted in 24 secondary schools (eight per country, three classes per school). Three

SUBMITTER: Mishu MP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11449278 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature