Abstract
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Associated health risks and increasing mortality with tobacco consumption have been increasing. If people involved in health care of the community practice the same it may further increase the magnitude of the problem. In spite of continued efforts by the government, tobacco consumption is still a growing public health concern. Tobacco is not only a sociocultural problem but multi-faceted with economic, biomedical and geopolitical parts in numerous fragments of India.
Aim:
1. To Asses Awareness regarding the adverse effect of tobacco among labor staff in the tertiary cancer hospital.
2. To assess the prevalence and reasons of tobacco consumption among health care workers (housekeeping staff and nursing orderlies) of a tertiary care center.
Methods:
A survey-based cross-sectional study of 195 labor staff, in Tata memorial hospital, assessed awareness regarding the adverse effect of tobacco. It was a fully mixed concurrent dominant status design a with dominant quantitative part Cross-sectionaional design was used. The qualitative component used phenomenology.
Keywords:
Low/middle-income countries (LMICs), phenomenology adveffects effect, smokeless tobacco (SLT), sociocultural.
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