Smoking prevalence, associated attitudes and comparison of negative automatic thoughts among high school students in turkey

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dc.contributor.authorAcat, Murat
dc.contributor.authorMemıs, Çagdas Öykü
dc.contributor.authorTuran, Muhammed Kamil
dc.contributor.authorBenli, Ali Ramazan
dc.contributor.authorTaşkın, Emre
dc.contributor.authorYaşar, Zehra
dc.contributor.authorMemıs, Seda Derıcı
dc.date.accessioned2024-09-29T16:29:20Z
dc.date.available2024-09-29T16:29:20Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.departmentKarabük Üniversitesien_US
dc.description.abstractIntroduction: Research indicates that social stressors, negative affect, anxiety or depression areassociated with an increased prevalence of smoking in adolescents.Objective: The aim of this study was to determine the smoking prevalence and to find out whetherspending more time on the internet or psychological characteristics like negative automatic thoughtsand thoughts of failure at school affect smoking among adolescents.Material and Methods: A self-administered anonymous sociodemographic questionnaire and theautomatic thoughts questionnaire (ATQ) were administered using a sample of students in grades 9through 12 at eight different public senior high schools in Karabuk, Turkey.A descriptive analysis was made, and the Chi-square and Mann-Whitney U tests were used to comparethe groups.Results: From the 463 participating students aged 14-19 years (43.9% female, 56.1% male), 40(8.7%) had tried smoking or were former smokers and 48 (10.4%) were occasionally or daily smokers.Students with male gender (p<0.001), older age (Z=-5.356; p<0.001), those who had used alcoholbefore (p<0.001), scored higher on the ATQ (Z=-2.065; p=0.039), spent more time on the internet(Z=-3.021; p=0.003), and felt like failing at school (Z=-3.730; p<0.001), and those who had a smokingmother (p<0.001), father (p=0.005), sibling (p=0.018), or close friend (p<0.001), had a higherfrequency of smoking.Conclusion: In order to increase our understanding, future research on smoking in adolescentscould target the psychological basis of smoking behavior.en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.17954/amj.2018.1478
dc.identifier.endpage21en_US
dc.identifier.issn1300-1779
dc.identifier.issue1en_US
dc.identifier.startpage16en_US
dc.identifier.trdizinid363484en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.17954/amj.2018.1478
dc.identifier.urihttps://search.trdizin.gov.tr/tr/yayin/detay/363484
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14619/10441
dc.identifier.volume6en_US
dc.indekslendigikaynakTR-Dizinen_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.relation.ispartofAkdeniz Tıp Dergisien_US
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Ulusal Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanıen_US
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessen_US
dc.titleSmoking prevalence, associated attitudes and comparison of negative automatic thoughts among high school students in turkeyen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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