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Factores de risco relacionados com as várias fases da “carreira” de fumador: Implicações para a prevenção
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O maior risco que os jovens correm quando começam
a fumar é o de ficar dependentes do tabaco, muitas vezes
para a vida inteira, expondo-se a um risco imediato e
futuro de contrair doenças graves. Tem-se verificado,
nos últimos anos, um aumento da prevalência do consumo
de tabaco nos jovens dos dois sexos, particularmente
nas raparigas. Determinar os factores de risco relacionados
com o consumo experimental, ocasional e regular
de cigarros. Aplicou-se um questionário a uma amostra
de 330 alunos, dos quais 173 (52%) eram rapazes e 157
(48%) raparigas. A média de idades é de treze anos. A
maioria dos alunos da amostra começou a fumar por volta
dos onze anos de idade, sendo a escola o principal local
de iniciação. Factores individuais (curiosidade, baixa
assertividade, etc.), micro sociais (consumo de tabaco
dos pais e dos amigos) e ambientais (facilidade em adquirir
cigarros), entre outros, estão relacionados com as várias
fases da “carreira de fumador”. Tratando-se de um comportamento
multifactorial, é necessário desenvolver e
implementar estratégias abrangentes, destinadas a contrariar
o conjunto de factores de risco relacionados com o tabagismo,
de forma contínua, para evitar que os/as jovens
comecem uma prejudicial carreira de fumadores/as.
The biggest risk that young people face when they start to smoke is to become addicted to tobacco, often for their whole life, exposing themselves to an immediate and future risk of contracting serious diseases. There has been, in recent years, an increasing prevalence of tobacco use in young people of both sexes, particularly in girls. To determine the risk factors associated with the experimental, occasional and regular consumption of cigarettes. A questionnaire was applied to a sample of 330 students, of whom 173 (52%) were boys and 157 (48%) girls. The average age is 13 years. The majority of the sample students began smoking at around 11 years of age, being the school the main place of initiation. Individual factors (curiosity, low assertiveness, etc.), micro social (the smoking of parents and friends) and environmental (ease in buying cigarettes), among others, are related to the various stages of the “career of smoking”. Being a multifactorial behaviour, it is necessary to develop and implement comprehensive strategies, to counteract the set of risk factors related to smoking in a continuous way, in order to prevent young people from starting a damaging career of smokers.
The biggest risk that young people face when they start to smoke is to become addicted to tobacco, often for their whole life, exposing themselves to an immediate and future risk of contracting serious diseases. There has been, in recent years, an increasing prevalence of tobacco use in young people of both sexes, particularly in girls. To determine the risk factors associated with the experimental, occasional and regular consumption of cigarettes. A questionnaire was applied to a sample of 330 students, of whom 173 (52%) were boys and 157 (48%) girls. The average age is 13 years. The majority of the sample students began smoking at around 11 years of age, being the school the main place of initiation. Individual factors (curiosity, low assertiveness, etc.), micro social (the smoking of parents and friends) and environmental (ease in buying cigarettes), among others, are related to the various stages of the “career of smoking”. Being a multifactorial behaviour, it is necessary to develop and implement comprehensive strategies, to counteract the set of risk factors related to smoking in a continuous way, in order to prevent young people from starting a damaging career of smokers.
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Tabagismo Prevenção Factores de risco para a saúde Smoking Prevention Health risk factors
Citation
Análise Psicológica, 26 (2), 177-192.
Publisher
ISPA – Instituto Universitário