Study of smoking pattern in intern doctors and perception

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Study of smoking pattern in intern doctors and perception

Journal Title: Indian Journal of Neurosciences - Year 2018, Vol 4, Issue 1

Abstract

Introduction Substance abuse is very common among medical intern students and smoking is found to be the single greatest preventable cause of premature death and disability It may affect their leaning abilities and can also deteriorate the quality of health care offered to the patients This study was conducted in order to assess the knowledge and attitude of interns towards smoking and to study their perception towards internshipMaterials and Methods This study was conducted at SHKM Govt Medical College Nuh Haryana India Interns were provided with a pretested anonymous semi openended questionnaire All passed out final year MBBS students were included in the study Response rate of the study was 782 as 61 out of 78 passed out students returned duly filled questionnaire after one month of internship periodResults Smoking emerged as a major factor of substance abuse among medical interns Most of them started smoking under pressure of peer group and 4426 were having one of their family members as a regular smoker Most of the intern doctors wanted to prepare for PG entrance examinations 3934 and choice of PG branch was clinical 8688 Most of the interns wanted to serve in urban settings after doing PG 7869Conclusion Smoking was found to be very common among intern doctors precipitated by stress or due to pressure of the peer group The perception of the intern doctors was to prepare for PG entrance examinations during internshipKeywords Perception Smoking Intern Doctors Internship

Authors and Affiliations

Anuradha Lyer, Kirti Sharma, Sibadatta Das, Sandeep Garg, Sakshi

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