Bibliographic citations
Ames, N., (2023). Narrativas sobre el inicio y la continuidad del consumo de tabaco en estudiantes universitarios de ciencias de la salud [Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia]. https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12866/13445
Ames, N., Narrativas sobre el inicio y la continuidad del consumo de tabaco en estudiantes universitarios de ciencias de la salud []. PE: Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia; 2023. https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12866/13445
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title = "Narrativas sobre el inicio y la continuidad del consumo de tabaco en estudiantes universitarios de ciencias de la salud",
author = "Ames Anapán, Nathaly Leonor",
publisher = "Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia",
year = "2023"
}
INTRODUCTION: Smoking is considered one of the greatest threats to public health that the world is facing, due to the increase in diseases and/or deaths related to its consumption, with young adults being the most vulnerable to continue the practice. Paradoxically, tobacco use among students of health sciences is common despite the fact that they are the ones who have more information and knowledge of the effects of tobacco use and will be responsible for promoting healthy habits and behaviors in the population. OBJECTIVES: In this sense, it is considered necessary to investigate this topic, in order to understand the experiences that explain the initiation and continuity of tobacco use in health sciences students based on their own narratives and thus propose future interventions in young people and adolescents. MATERIALS AND METHODS: The study is qualitative and the MINI instrument was applied to university students of health sciences of a private university in Lima, belonging to the age group of young people between 18 years to 29 years who consume tobacco at least once a week and have thought or tried to quit smoking. RESULTS: The students narratives show that the fact of knowing the health effects of cigarette consumption is not enough to limit such action, but that there are other explanations related to social consumption, achieving certain recognition by the environment or giving an almost therapeutic role to cigarette consumption. CONCLUSIONS: The development of strategies aimed at preventing tobacco consumption should consider the understanding of diverse meanings or reasoning of the experience lived by the interviewees to initiate and continue with their cigarette consumption, so it is also an opportunity for intervention.
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