A Descriptive Study to Assess the Knowledge and attitude Regarding Tobacco Abuse among Factory Workers in Selected Factories, District Jalandhar, Punjab, 2014

Tobacco consumption has become a global problem affecting the health of the persons badly. Deaths due to cancer are one of the primary adverse effects of cigarette smoking. It is becoming more prevalent in developing countries like India and is more common among the workers at their workplace which further leads to dangerous consequences. Tobacco continues to be the substance causing the maximum health damage globally. WHO estimates that there are around 1.1 thousand million smokers in the world, about one-third of the global population aged 15 and over. The aim of study was to research to assess the knowledge and attitude regarding Tobacco abuse among factory workers.

To assess the knowledge regarding Tobacco abuse among the factory workers.

To assess attitude regarding Tobacco abuse among factory workers.

To find out the relationship between knowledge and attitude regarding Tobacco abuse among factory workers.

To find out the association between the knowledge and attitude regarding Tobacco abuse among factory workers and their selected socio- demographic variables.

To plan and provide an information booklet regarding Tobacco abuse to factory workers.

Design: Non- experimental (Descriptive Design)

Setting: Selected Factories, District Jalandhar, Punjab

Population: All Factory workers, District Jalandhar, Punjab

Sample Size: 200 Factory workers selected from selected Factories of district Jalandhar Punjab

Sampling techniques: Convenience Sampling Technique

Findings of the study has shown that the majority of the Factory workers 135(67.5%) had average knowledge regarding Tobacco Abuse and majority 117 (58.5%) Factory workers falls under category of negative attitude.