@article{ajmsm2019739,
author={Al-Qarni, Moneerah Ibrahim},
title={Prevalence and Determinants of Electronic Cigarettes Use among Governmental Secondary School Students in Makkah, 2018},
journal={American Journal of Medical Sciences and Medicine},
volume={7},
number={3},
pages={105--111},
year={2019},
url={http://pubs.sciepub.com/ajmsm/7/3/9},
issn={2327-6657},
abstract={<b>Background: </b>Since introduction in the early 2000s, e-cigarette use has rapidly increased among adolescents worldwide.<SUP> </SUP>However, little is known about e-cigarette uptake among adolescents in Saudi Arabia. <b>Objectives: </b>To explore the prevalence and determinants of the e-cigarette use among governmental secondary school students in Makkah, 2018. <b>Subjects and methods: </b>Cross-sectional descriptive study was carried out, including a random representative sample of students attending governmental secondary schools in Makkah during 2018-2019.<b> </b>A self-administered validated questionnaire was adopted and modified from WHO Youth Tobacco Survey 2011 consisting of socio-demographic and personal characteristics and associated determinants. <b>Results: </b>The study included 301 governmental secondary school students. More than half of the students (54.2%) were females and 56.8% were Saudis. Forty-five students (15%) ever tried to use electronic cigarettes whereas twenty-seven (9%) students have used e-cigarettes in the past 30 days. Higher school grades, higher allowance, working fathers, higher educated mothers, parental smoking, friend smoking, ignorance of the fact that e-cigarettes contain nicotine and of the harmful impacts of the e-cigarettes on health are significantly associated with e-cigarette use. The main reasons for e-cigarette use among those who ever tried them (n=45) were the desire to have an experience with e-cigarette (77.8%), feeling that e-cigarette can help them quit smoking (64.4%), trying to taste and smell the e-cigarette (62.2%) and feeling that e-cigarette is safer than tobacco cigarette (60.0%). <b>Conclusion: </b>E-cigarettes have been tried and currently used by a considerable proportion of students enrolled in governmental secondary schools in Makkah. Some associated factors were identified.},
doi={10.12691/ajmsm-7-3-9}
publisher={Science and Education Publishing}
}