Title:
ASSESSMENT OF THE KNOWLEDGE OF NURSING COLLEGE STUDENTS ABOUT THE HARMFUL EFFECT OF PASSIVE SMOKING

Authors:
Wathiq Faraon, Firas A. Jassim, Sajjad S. Issa, Hiba Hadi and Malak Falih

Abstract:
Background: Smoking is a major public health problem worldwide. There have been thousands of studies investigating the impact of active smoking on health, the effects of passive smoking on health are not fully understood. Objectives: To assess the knowledge of nursing college students about the harmful effect of passive smoking. Methodology: A cross –sectional study designed to assess the knowledge of nursing college students about the harmful effect of passive smoking and the study was conducted using electronic forma which was distributed to the students electronically. Electronic convenient sampling technique was used. A total sample size was 150 students from University of Basra College of nursing all stages were involved in the study. Results: our study showed that Residency 61.4 % were from Basra, 13.3 % from Dhiqar, 10 % from Babylon, 7.4 % from Baghdad, 6.6 % from Samawa and 1.3 % from Dyala. Age: 16 % were aged from 18 – 22, 80 % aged from 23 – 27 and 4 % aged from 28 and above. Stage: 22 % were in the first stage, 16 % were in the second stage, 18 were in the third stage and 44 % in the fourth stage. The study shit: 70 % of the sample were from the morning study and 30 % were from the evening study. knowledge according to questionnaire responses by the students: The students of college of nursing had good knowledge about the harmful effects of passive Smoking, where most items of the questionnaire were significant indicating the high level of knowledge.

Keywords:
Assessment, knowledge, nursing college students’ harmful effect, passive smoking

DOI:
https://doi.org/10.37500/IJESSR.2024.7108

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