Religious Officials' knowledge, attitude, and behavior towards smoking and the new tobacco law in Kahramanmaras, Turkey

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dc.authoridözer, ali/0000-0002-7144-4915
dc.authorwosidEkerbiçer, Hasan Çetin/HHT-0237-2022
dc.authorwosidözer, ali/ABI-2209-2020
dc.contributor.authorSucakli, Mustafa Haki
dc.contributor.authorOzer, Ali
dc.contributor.authorCelik, Mustafa
dc.contributor.authorKahraman, Hasan
dc.contributor.authorEkerbicer, Hasan Cetin
dc.date.accessioned2024-08-04T20:32:54Z
dc.date.available2024-08-04T20:32:54Z
dc.date.issued2011
dc.departmentİnönü Üniversitesien_US
dc.description.abstractBackground: Tobacco control effort should be first started in people that are looked upon as role models for the general population. We aimed to determine the knowledge, attitude, and behavior of religious officials towards smoking and the new tobacco law. Method: The study group was comprised of 492 Imams and 149 Quran course instructors working in Kahramanmaras city of Turkey, 641 religious officials in total, and our survey form was applied on 406 (63.3%) of those religious officials who agreed to participate in the study. \ Results: Twenty-eight (6.9%) participants were current smokers and 35 (8.6%) were ex-smokers. 99.8% of the religious officials believed that smoking was harmful and/or prohibited in terms of religion. While 43.6% respondents thought smoking was haram (forbidden by Islam), 56.2% believed it was makruh (something regarded as reprehensible, though not forbidden by God according to Islam). 85.2% of the participants were aware of the recent tobacco law. 55.5% of the respondents, who were aware of the recent tobacco law, evaluated their knowledge level on the law as adequate, whereas 44.5% evaluated it as inadequate 92.4% of the participants noted that religious officials should play active roles in tobacco control effort. Conclusion: Smoking rate among religious officials is much lower than that of general public. In order to help religious officials to take a more active role on this issue, they should be trained on the subject and appropriate platforms should be established.en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1186/1471-2458-11-602
dc.identifier.issn1471-2458
dc.identifier.pmid21797994en_US
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-79960657029en_US
dc.identifier.scopusqualityQ1en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-11-602
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11616/95388
dc.identifier.volume11en_US
dc.identifier.wosWOS:000294437900001en_US
dc.identifier.wosqualityQ2en_US
dc.indekslendigikaynakWeb of Scienceen_US
dc.indekslendigikaynakScopusen_US
dc.indekslendigikaynakPubMeden_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherBmcen_US
dc.relation.ispartofBmc Public Healthen_US
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanıen_US
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessen_US
dc.subjectSmokingen_US
dc.subjectknowledgeen_US
dc.subjectattitudeen_US
dc.subjectbehavioren_US
dc.subjectImamen_US
dc.subjectreligious officialen_US
dc.subjectTurkeyen_US
dc.titleReligious Officials' knowledge, attitude, and behavior towards smoking and the new tobacco law in Kahramanmaras, Turkeyen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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