Awareness of Health Effect of Shisha and Its Influence on Attitudes and Smoking Behaviouramong Students in Selected Public Universities in Nairobi County, Kenya.
Journal Title: IOSR Journal of Humanities and Social Science - Year 2018, Vol 23, Issue 7
Abstract
The popularity of shisha and its use among university students is on a steady rise. Given that it is marketed as a safe and trendy, and because little preventive efforts have been put in place towards its demand reduction and supply suppression, many people may continue with its use unaware of its health consequences. Investigating the level of awareness of the health consequences of shisha and its influence on attitudes and smoking behavior is an important starting point in designing prevention efforts. This study employed theex-postfactocorrelational research design. Purposive and simplerandom sampling of 150 university students was done. A questionnaire consisting of an awareness and attitude test was used to collect data. Descriptive statistics, spearman‟s rank order correlation coefficient and the chi-square of associationwere used to analyze data at 5% level of significance. Findings indicated that there was a moderate negative correlation between influence of awareness of health effects of shisha and attitudes towards smoking shisha for both male and female respondents, rs(57) = -.496, p < .05 and rs(93) = -.348, p < .05 respectively. There was a statistically significant association between awareness of health effects of shisha and smoking behavior, χ2 (1) = 11.907, p = .003. The study recommends that prevention efforts should focus on reversing the misconceptions on the health effects of shisha and also changing the attitudes towards it by means of psycho education.
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Dr Thomas Njoroge Kinga
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