Thank you for visiting nature. You are using a browser version with limited support for CSS. To obtain the best experience, we recommend you use a more up to date browser or turn off compatibility mode in Internet Explorer. In the meantime, to ensure continued support, we are displaying the site without styles and JavaScript. This study applied an online survey followed by cotinine tests for high-school students in Gunung Kidul, Yogyakarta.
The participants were asked to complete the survey and participate in a cotinine test. Univariate and multivariate regressions were performed to seek potential determinants of the smoking status and diagnostic accuracy of the cotinine test. A total of participants completed the survey, with The impacts of the pandemics on their smoking behaviours were found in the urgency and numbers of daily smoked cigarettes. Multivariate regression analysis revealed that the odds of planning to stop smoking were 0.
Of the 65 cotinine tests, 19 tested positive, with the sensitivity and specificity of the cotinine test at The prevalence of adolescent smoking during the COVID pandemic in Gunung Kidul is high, with the impacts of the pandemic on the urgency and number of cigarette smoke.
There are opportunities to help them stop smoking by providing reliable quit-tobacco access and advocacy in collaboration with schools, parents, and health providers. Up to a third of Indonesian men are smokers, and the prevalence has continued to increase in adults and adolescents in the last two decades.
Recent surveys report that around This situation is alarming as the adolescent smoking status may initiate their smoking addiction in the future 3 , 4 , and may impact on their health and economic vulnerability 5.
