Self-reported tobacco smoking practices among medical students and their perceptions towards training about tobacco smoking in medical curricula: A cross-sectional, questionnaire survey in Malaysia, India, Pakistan, Nepal, and Bangladesh

Substance Abuse: Treatment, Prevention, and Policy

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Sreeramareddy, Chandrashekhar T ^a   Suri, Sushil ^b   Menezes, Ritesh G ^c   Kumar, HN Harsha ^c   Rahman, Mahbubur ^d   Islam, Md R ^d   Pereira, Xavier V ^b   Shah, Mohsin ^e   Sathian, Brijesh ^f   Shetty, Ullasa ^g   Vaswani, Vina R ^h  

^a MANIPAL UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b MELAKA MANIPAL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

^c KASTURBA MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

^d Faridpur Medical College   (Bangladesh)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (Pakistan)

^f MANIPAL COLLEGE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Nepal)

^g A J INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^h YENEPOYA MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASIA; ATTITUDE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; CURRICULUM; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALAYSIA; MALE; MEDICAL STUDENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; SMOKING;

ASIA, WESTERN; ATTITUDE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; CURRICULUM; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALAYSIA; MALE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SMOKING; STUDENTS, MEDICAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78149493827     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1747597X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1747-597X-5-29     Document Type: Article

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