• J Environ Public Health · Jan 2019

    Tobacco Smoking and Use of Smokeless Tobacco and Their Association with Psychological Distress and Other Factors in a Rural District in Bangladesh: A Cross-Sectional Study.

    • Fakir M Amirul Islam and Alexandra Walton.
    • Department of Statistics, Data Science and Epidemiology, Faculty of Health, Arts and Design, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia.
    • J Environ Public Health. 2019 Jan 1; 2019: 1424592.

    BackgroundTobacco smoking and use of smokeless tobacco are the most preventable cause of death in Bangladesh. The prevalence of psychological distress is increasing globally. This paper reports the smoking status and their association with psychological distress and other factors in a rural district, Narail, of Bangladesh.Materials And MethodsData were collected from 2425 adults of age 18-90 years. Smoking status along with sociodemographic characteristics and measures of psychological distress using the Kessler 10-item questionnaire were collected using a face-to-face data collection method.ResultsThe crude (age-standardized) prevalence of ever smoking was 27.1 (24.3)% that includes current 25.6 (23.7) and smoker 1.5 (0.6)%, and the prevalence of smokeless tobacco (SLT) was 23.5 (13.4)%. The prevalence of ever smoking was the highest in daily labourers (62.9%) and SLT use was the highest in widowed people (47.2%). After adjustment for covariates, no education (odds ratio (OR): 3.78, 95% confidence interval (CI): 1.57-9.07 for females and OR: 2.69, 95% CI: 1.87-3.87 for males) compared to at least secondary level of education and daily labours (OR: 6.66, 95% CI: 1.67-26.6 for females and OR: 5.12, 95% CI: 1.30-20.19 for males) compared to housework were associated with higher prevalence of ever smoking. Any level of psychological distress, such as mild psychological distress, was associated with at least double the prevalence of tobacco smoking in females (OR: 2.12, 95% CI: 1.67-3.83) but not in males (OR: 1.12, 95% CI: 0.80-1.56). Psychological distress was not associated with SLT use.ConclusionsPrevalence of both smoking and SLT use was high, particularly in daily labourers, people with no education, and females with psychological distress in rural Bangladesh. Appropriate intervention programs should especially target those of low levels of education and laborious occupations for increasing awareness for the cessation of smoking in rural Bangladesh.Copyright © 2019 Fakir M. Amirul Islam and Alexandra Walton.

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