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Characterization of Smoking in Adolescents from the Medical Sciences in Cuba
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
medical and clinical research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2577-8005
DOI - 10.33140/mcr.05.01.04
Subject(s) - family medicine , psychology , medicine
Background: The characterization in adolescent’s smokers as prevention from the medical sciences is one of the lines of the workteam in the consultation of Ceasing Tobacco.Objective: To characterize of smoking in adolescents from the medical sciences in Cuba. The investigation embraced one periodfrom January 2019 to September 2019.Method: A descriptive study of traverse court was used. Registered to 41 students for sampling intentional non probabilistic, of anuniverse of 80 adolescent students. It was used empiric methods; clinical histories, interviews structured and the questionnaire.Results: The male sex prevailed, where 51,2 % of the active smoking adolescents was understood between the 13 and 15 yearsof age, 78 % of these they began to smoke between the 12 and 15 years.Conclusion: Of why the most frequent reasons began to smoke it was the relaxation and the pressure group given by a code ofcompanionship.