. Saeed Bashirian; . Majid Barati; . Manoochehr Karami; . Behrooz Hamzeh; . Elahe Ezati
Volume 11, Issue 8 , September 2021, , Pages 1-7
Abstract
BACKGROUND: The prevalence of water pipe smoking is increasing among young people, butthere are limited data on its use among adolescents in Iran. The aim of this study is to investigate ...
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BACKGROUND: The prevalence of water pipe smoking is increasing among young people, butthere are limited data on its use among adolescents in Iran. The aim of this study is to investigate theprevalence of WP smoking and associated risk factors among female adolescents in Western Iran.MATERIALS AND METHODS: This cross‑sectional study was conducted in schools. It included 1302middle school (48.1%) and high school (51.9%) female students (grades 7–12) recruited throughstage random sampling and conducted in 2019 in the western city of Kermanshah, Iran. The datacollection tool was a researcher‑made questionnaire. Logistic regression analyses and descriptivestatistics were executed using SPSS version 22.RESULTS: The mean (standard deviation) ages of the students and the ages when the participantsstarted WP smoking were 15.22 ± 1.85 and 13.64 (1.64), respectively. Nearly 32.2% had a singleexperience of WP smoking during their lifetime and 20.4% were current consumers of WP. Mostof the subjects smoked WPs at their friends’ home (45.8%) and with their friends (47.4%). Thesignificantly important factors that affect WP smoking in these age groups are the father’s andmother’s occupation, family size, living with others, father’s education, having a friend who smokesWPs, friends’ encouragement to smoke WP, and being in a family that smoke WPs.CONCLUSIONS: Considering the increasing popularity of WP among adolescent females and itsincreasing prevalence, the results showed that Water pipe smoking with friends played a key role inWP smoking among female adolescents. There is a need to design interventional studies to increasepeople’s skills and to design and implement programs to prevent water pipe.