What Is Behind Smoking Among Pharmacy Students: A Quantitative and Qualitative Study From Turkey

This study, performed in two phases, compared the smoking status of first- and last-year pharmacy students and identified underlying factors of smoking using both "quantitative" and "qualitative" research techniques. The quantitative phase was a cross-sectional study with 207 stu...

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Published in:Substance use & misuse 2006, Vol.41 (3), p.405-414
Main Authors: Yegenoglu, Selen, Aslan, Dilek, Erdener, Sefik Evren, Acar, Aylin, Bilir, Nazmi
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Addictive behaviors
Adult
Adult and adolescent clinical studies
Biological and medical sciences
Catchment Area (Health)
Cross-Sectional Studies
Female
focus group discussion (FGD)
Focus groups
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
Humans
Male
Medical sciences
Pharmacists
Pharmacology - education
pharmacy students
Psychoanalysis
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychopathology. Psychiatry
qualitative study
quantitative study
Smoking
Smoking - epidemiology
Students
Students - statistics & numerical data
Surveys and Questionnaires
Tobacco smoking
Tobacco, tobacco smoking
Toxicology
Turkey
Turkey - epidemiology
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Summary:This study, performed in two phases, compared the smoking status of first- and last-year pharmacy students and identified underlying factors of smoking using both "quantitative" and "qualitative" research techniques. The quantitative phase was a cross-sectional study with 207 students (of these, 102 were first-year and 105 were last-year students). The mean age at which first-year students tried tobacco/tobacco products was 14.1 ± 3.2 and for last-year students, 16.0 ± 2.4. The students completed an 18-item questionnaire at the end of the spring semester in May 2004. Chi-square and t-test analyses were used for statistical comparisons. Furthermore, focus group discussion techniques were used to find out the underlying factors of smoking in the second phase.
ISSN:1082-6084
1532-2491
DOI:10.1080/10826080500409142