Prevalence and factors associated with tobacco use among Brazilian college students: a systematic review and meta-analysis

• Autor(a) principal: Queiroz, Bruna Figueredo
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Outros Autores: Campos, Hudson Manoel Nogueira, Gomes, Daiene Rosa, Mattos, Mússio Pirajá
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Baiana de Saúde Pública (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://rbsp.sesab.ba.gov.br/index.php/rbsp/article/view/3452
• topic: Tabaco; Estudantes; Brasil; Revisão sistemática; Metanálise; Tabaco; Estudiantes; Brasil; Revisión sistemática; Metaanálisis; Tobacco; Students; Brazil; Systematic review; Meta-analysis

Smoking constitutes a mental and behavioral disorder due to the use of psychoactive substances and is recognized as a chronic disease caused by dependence on nicotine, substance present in tobacco products. To identify the prevalence and factors associated with tobacco use among Brazilian college students, this study carried out a systematic review and meta-analysis from January 2010 to December 2020. Data was collected by searches in the Scielo.org and Scielo.br, Virtual Health Library (BVS), Latin American and Caribbean Health Sciences Literature (Lilacs), Pubmed, Web of science, Scopus, and Embase databases. The review followed the PRISMA guidelines, and its methodological rigor was assessed according to Russell and Gregory. Of the 1496 papers found, 18 were included in the systematic review and eight in the meta-analysis. Of these, 61.11% were published between 2010 and 2014. The prevalence of tobacco use ranged from 4.7% to 24.6%; among former smokers, it ranged from 2.1% to 88.5%. As for gender, 11% of men and 4% of women use tobacco, according to summary of the meta-analysis. The following associated factors were highlighted: being male; living alone or with friends; family income from 5 to 8 minimum wages; economic class A1/A2; unemployed; and not being religious. Several studies address this subject in the proposed period, published with different perspectives. But the analyses report divergence of use between genders and point to some protective factors.