Cigarette smoking among female students in five medical and nonmedical colleges.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

This study was conducted to determine the prevalence of smoking, knowledge about the ill effects of smoking on health, and the influence of family members' smoking habits among Saudi female students.

Methods

This is a type of cross-sectional study. A sample of 1,070 female students was selected by a nonrandom and convenient sampling method from five colleges (Medicine, Business and Administration, Computer Sciences, Education, and Languages and Translation) of King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. A self-administrated questionnaire was used to determine the personal, social, and educational characteristics of the respondents. In addition, questions about their smoking types, status, duration of smoking, knowledge about the ill effects of smoking, daily cigar

SUBMITTER: Abdulghani HM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3754488 | biostudies-literature | 2013

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature