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Comparative Study
. 2006 Apr 30;37(7):392-9.
doi: 10.1157/13087382.

[Risk factors in experimenting with and consumption of tobacco by 12-14 year-old school students. Attitudes to tobacco in pressure groups]

[Article in Spanish]
P García  1 , A Carrillo, A Fernández, J M Sánchez
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Comparative Study

[Risk factors in experimenting with and consumption of tobacco by 12-14 year-old school students. Attitudes to tobacco in pressure groups]

[Article in Spanish]
P García et al. Aten Primaria. .

Abstract
in English, Spanish

Introduction: Tobacco is the first addictive substance that adolescents and school-children have contact with. The presence of family members and friends as smokers in their environment is related to tobacco experimentation.

Objectives: To describe experimentation and consumption of tobacco in secondary school students (ESO); to identify the attitudes related to smoking; and to study the relationship between smoking by family members, friends and teachers and students' own experimentation and consumption.

Methods: Observational, prospective study at the "Los Cantos" secondary school, Bullas, Murcia, Spain.

Population: students from the first, second and third years of ESO, analysed in December 2000 and 2001. The variables studied were collected with the FRISC questionnaire.

Results: The population had 529 students, 293 of them boys, with average age 13.2. A total of 328 had smoked sometime (62%) and 19.1% smoked habitually. Attitudes related with smoking were: "smoking makes you feel better" (P<.001), "smoking is fun" (P<.001), "smoking helps to make friends" (P<.001) and "I'd accept a cigarette from a friend" (P<.001). Tobacco experimentation was related to friends/companions smoking (OR=2.402; 95% CI, 1.591-3.628), to the presence of a mother and older siblings smoking (OR=2.703; 95% CI, 1.574-4.642), and to the presence of friends/companions smoking (OR=6.342; 95% CI, 3.102-12.964).

Conclusion: Experimentation and consumption of tobacco in the population studied is very high. The most important risk factors for students smoking are the conduct of friends and of older siblings.

Introducción: El tabaco es la primera sustancia adictiva con la que los escolares y los adolescentes entran contacto. La presencia de fumadores en el entorno,familiares y amigos, se relaciona con la experimentación tabáquica.

Objetivos: Describir la experimentación y el consumo de tabaco entre estudiantes de educación secundaria (ESO); identificar las actitudes relacionadas con el consumo y estudiar la relación entre consumo de familiares, amigos y profesores y la experimentación y el consumo en los escolares.

Sujetos y método: Estudio observacional,prospectivo, en el Instituto Enseñanza Secundaria «Los Cantos» de Bullas (Murcia). Población estudiada: alumnos de primero, segundo y tercero de ESO,analizados en diciembre de 2000 y de 2001.Las variables estudiadas se recogen mediante el cuestionario FRISC.

Resultados: Población compuesta por 529 alumnos, con 293 chicos y una edad media de 13,2 años. El 62% ha fumado en alguna ocasión (n = 328) y el 19,1% consume tabaco habitualmente. Se relacionan con la experimentación tabáquica las actitudes: «fumar hace sentir bien» (p < 0,001), «fumar es divertido» (p < 0,001), «fumar ayuda a hacer amigos» (p < 0,001), «aceptaría un cigarrillo ofrecido por un amigo» (p < 0,001). La experimentación se relaciona con la presencia de amigos/compañeros fumadores (oddsratio [OR] = 2,402; intervalo de confianza [IC] del 95%, 1,591-3,628) y la presencia conjunta de madre y hermanos mayores fumadores (OR = 2,703;IC del 95%, 1,574-4,642), y la presencia deamigos/compañeros fumadores (OR = 6,342; IC del 95%, 3,102-12,964).

Conclusiones: La experimentación y el consumo de tabaco en la población estudiada son muy elevados. Los factores de riesgo más importantes para la experimentación y el consumo son las conductas mostradas por los amigos y los hermanos mayores.

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