Smoking Addiction and Risk Factors in Teenagers in Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire - Open Journal of Pediatrics

OJPed > Vol.8 No.4, December 2018

Smoking Addiction and Risk Factors in Teenagers in Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire ()

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DOI: 10.4236/ojped.2018.84030 815 Downloads 1,860 Views Citations

Author(s)

Aké-Assi Marie-Hélène^1*, Coulibaly Amed², Eboua Tanoh François¹, Bhérat Kouadio Armel³, Boko Kouassi Alexandre³

Affiliation(s)

¹Department of Medical Pediatrics, Teaching Hospital of Yopougon, Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire.
²Department of Public Health and Biostatistics, Faculty of Medical Sciences, University Félix Houphouet-Boigny (UFHB), Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire.
³Service de Pneumologie, CHU de Cocody, Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire.

ABSTRACT

A prospective cross-sectional descriptive and analytical study was conducted using an individual questionnaire over a four-month period from October 04^th, 2013 to February 06^th, 2014 in Abidjan. It included teenagers aged from 13 to 17 who are students among which some are not attending school and living in the street for others. The purpose of this study was to describe the socio-demographic characteristics of the teenagers addicted to smoking and to determine the factors associated with smoking addiction. 446 teenagers were recruited. A prospective cross-sectional descriptive and analytical study was conducted over a four-month period from October 4th, 2013 to February 06, 2014 in Abidjan. There were 76% boys versus 26% girls. The prevalence of smoking addiction was 81.9% for teenagers not attending school and living in the street and 18.1% for teenage students. The average age of smoking initiation was 12.9 years. Sources of motivation for tobacco consumption were imitation (31.25%), curiosity (29.46%) and the desire of self-assertiveness (17.85%). Being of male sex, having non-educated parents, being in a single-parent home and in a family with more than five children were the features related to the status of teenagers not attending school and living in the street. Smoking addiction in teenagers was influenced by one of the parents smoking addiction. To address the problem of teenager addicted to smoking in Cote d’Ivoire, tobacco control interventions should be taken into account regarding to the psychosocial characteristics of teenagers, especially those living in the street.

KEYWORDS

Tobacco, Teenagers, School, Street Children, Cote d’Ivoire

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Marie-Hélène, A. , Amed, C. , François, E. , Armel, B. and Alexandre, B. (2018) Smoking Addiction and Risk Factors in Teenagers in Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire. Open Journal of Pediatrics, 8, 293-302. doi: 10.4236/ojped.2018.84030.

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