KNOWLEDGE ON ILL EFFECTS OF TOBACCO USES AMONG ADOLESCENCE IN SELECTED URBAN AND RURAL COMMUNITY OF KAMRUP DISTRICT, ASSAM

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Dorin Ingtipi , Nirmali Devi , Ramneimoi Varte

Tobacco adolescence urban rural Kamrup

Background -Tobacco use in children and adolescents is reaching pandemic levels. The World Bank has reported that nearly 82,000–99,000 children and adolescents all over the world begin smoking every day. About half of them would continue to smoke to adulthood and half of the adult smokers are expected to die prematurely due to smoking related diseases. If current smoking trends continue, tobacco will kill nearly 250 million of today's children. Tobacco addiction of a large number of adults has been initiated during the adolescence. The study was conducted to assess the level of knowledge on ill effects of tobacco uses among adolescence in selected urban and rural community of Kamrup District, Assam. The objectives were to assess the level of knowledge on ill effect of tobacco uses among the adolescence in selected urban and rural community, to compare the knowledge on ill effects of tobacco uses among adolescence in selected urban and rural community, the study also attempted to determine to find out the association between knowledge on ill effects of tobacco uses among adolescence with selected sociodemographic variables i.e., Age, Gender, Education, Religion, Father’seducation, Mothers education, Father’s occupation, Mother’s occupation and Family income. Materials and Methods -A Quantitative Research Approach andEvaluative Comparative Research Designwas adopted for the study. The study was conducted at in village Nizarapar, Singimari and Milanagar under Panikhaiti MPHC for rural area and Odalbakra, Sree Nagar and Lalganesh Colony of Odalbakara MPHC for Urban areas. The investigator uses Multistage Simple Random Sampling Technique to select 290 beneficiaries (adolescence of 13-20 years). Structured interview knowledge questionnaire interview method was use to collect the data. Result-The study revealed that the knowledge on ill effects of tobacco uses among adolescence in selected urban and rural community. Findings showed that in urban mean knowledge score was 11.8 ± 4.27and in rural mean knowledge score 10.33 ± 2.6 with means difference of 1.47. The mean difference between urban and rural knowledge score was tested using unpaired ‘t’ test with obtained (t=1.36) was statistically not significant at p<0.05 level of significance. The results infer that there is significant difference in Knowledge on ill effects of tobacco uses among adolescence in Selected Rural and Urban Areas of Kamrup District, Assam. Conclusion-Most of the adolescence in rural and urban have a moderately adequate knowledge on ill effect of tobacco uses. Significant association was found in only in terms of age, educational status and religion in rural community and Age, Education and Fathers education in urban community.

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Dorin Ingtipi, Nirmali Devi, & Ramneimoi Varte (July-2025). KNOWLEDGE ON ILL EFFECTS OF TOBACCO USES AMONG ADOLESCENCE IN SELECTED URBAN AND RURAL COMMUNITY OF KAMRUP DISTRICT, ASSAM. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF NOVEL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT, 10(7), 51-121. https://ijnrd.org/papers/IJNRDTH00230.pdf

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