title: Prevalence, correlates, and changes in tobacco use between 2006 and 2010 among 13-15 year Moroccan school attending adolescents.
abstract: Tobacco use is a preventable cause of disease and death globally. Adolescents using tobacco tend to continue its use in adulthood. Analysis of data from Moroccan Global School-based Student Health Surveys for 2006 and 2010 showed statistically significant differences in prevalence of current cigarette smoking as well as current use of other tobacco products, among school attending 13-15 year old boys and girls within the year 2006 and 2010; with boys having higher prevalence than girls in each year. Combined prevalence of cigarette smoking i.e. between both boys and girls showed statistically significant difference between 2006 and 2010; with a higher prevalence in 2010. Use of tobacco in multivariate analysis of 2010 data, was found to have statistically significant associations with anxiety disorders, gender, truancy, depression, suicidal ideation, inadequate parental monitoring, and parental smoking.
authors.forename: Masood Ali
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Shaikh
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior; D005260:Female; D006306:Health Surveys; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009018:Morocco / Q000453:epidemiology; D015995:Prevalence; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology*; D064424:Tobacco Use / Q000453:epidemiology*