Tobacco Control Interventions during Last Decade in India: A Narrative Review
Journal Title: National Journal of Community Medicine - Year 2017, Vol 8, Issue 12
Abstract
Background: Various national level surveys, Global Adult Tobacco Sur-vey (GATS) and Global Youth To-bacco Survey (GYTS) in different age groups have shown that tobacco addiction is prevalent across age, sex and geospatial distribution. In 2007-08, Government of India pi-loted a National Tobacco Control program which has suggested mon-itoring of tobacco control laws along with local IEC activities and school program for tobacco control. Purpose of review: Objective of the current review was to identify these tobacco control interventions whose efficacies have been recently proved among Indian population. Findings: The review paper is based on the synthesis of the results of 24 studies describing interventions. Review has showed that there is a lack of standardized and robust tool to measure efficacy of the tobacco use, prevention and intervention. Interventions have used social cog-nition theory, extensively. Studies focused on cessation of tobacco, generally lack any theoretical framework. These studies have used self reported tobacco quit rates ra-ther than established sophisticated tools. Conclusion: Review suggested that intervention package for communi-ty based trial should use more standardized tools to measure their outcome and can be benefitted from the use of more diverse theoretical framework for formulation of inter-ventions.
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Swapnil A Gadhave, Aarti Nagarkar
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