Factors Related to Intention to Quit Smoking among Industrial Workers in Myanmar: A Cross-Sectional Study
| Main Authors: | Myo Zin Oo, Alessio Panza, Sathirakorn Pongpanich |
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| Format: | Article |
| Terbitan: |
, 2019
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| Online Access: |
https://zenodo.org/record/3359595 |
Daftar Isi:
- Smoking causes harmful effects to health and increases the risk of premature deaths. Smoking can harm the industrial workers not only to their health but also to their absenteeism and productivity in their work which may lead to less income with high cost for the medical care and treatment. The objective of this study is to assess the factors related to intention to quit smoking among industrial workers in Myanmar and this cross sectional study was conducted among 292 workers aged 16 years old and above from Mandalay Industrial zone. An interviewer administered questionnaire was used for data collection and data analysis was done by using SPSS version 22. Chi-squared test was used to find the associations between socio-demographic characteristics, smoking history, nicotine dependence and intention to quit smoking with the statistical significant value of p < 0.05. Among 292 respondents, about 42.5% had intention to quit smoking. There were statistically significant association between age, education status, number of years cigarette smoked, place of smoking and intention with p value of p = 0.029, p = 0.009, p = 0.049 and p = 0.010 respectively. As this study was conducted on intention to quit smoking, further qualitative studies are recommended to be conducted and to assess relationship between intention to quit smoking and quit attempts, and smoking abstinence.