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P02-164 - Vulnerability's Factors of Smoking Addiction in the Medical and Paramedical Staff
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 April 2020
Abstract
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To determine the factors of vulnerability to the addiction to smoking to the medical and paramedical staff and to prevent them.
Patients and methods
Our study concerned 100 medical and paramedical staffs practicing in the HEDI CHAKER HOSPITAL, Sfax
A structured questionnaire was used to collect socio-demographic, somatic, psychiatric and the tobacco consumption data.
We also used Hospital-Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) and Rosenberg's self-esteem scale.
Results
The population was consisted of 100 staffs of the health, distributed in two groups
Group 1 (n = 50), regular or occasional smokers
Group 2 (n = 50), no-smoking witnesses
The mean age was 30 years. Sex-ratio (H/F) was 1.
The smokers were single in 60%. They began to smoke in an average age of 16 years. Their motivations to smoke were mainly: curiosity (44%), decreasing stress (28%), searching pleasure (16%) and doing as the others (12%).
The smokers, compared with witnesses, consumed more alcohol and reported more stress factors (divorce of the parents, the frequent quarrels in the family, financial difficulties).
In our study, low self-esteem and anxiety were statistically correlated to the tobacco consumption (p=0.00).
Conclusion
It emerges from this work that the addiction to smoking in the medical and paramedical staff is frequently associated with traumatic events, anxious disorder and low self-esteem.
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