QUALITY OF LIFE BETWEEN SMOKERS AND NON-SMOKERS MALE UNIVERSITY STUDENTS - A COMPARATIVE STUDY.

Mahvish Qaiser; Kalpana Zutshi; Nahid Khan

Volume : X, Issue : V, May - 2020

QUALITY OF LIFE BETWEEN SMOKERS AND NON-SMOKERS MALE UNIVERSITY STUDENTS - A COMPARATIVE STUDY.

Mahvish Qaiser, Kalpana Zutshi, Nahid Khan

Abstract :

Background: The study was aimed to compare the quality of life between smokers and non–smokers university going male students. Material and methods: 68 university students participated in this study, of which 34 were smokers(Group A) and 34 were non–smokers (Group B). After signing the consent, all the participants were asked to fill Short Forum 36 version 2 Questionnaire. Results: The Quality Metric Health OutcomesTM Scoring Software 5.0 was used to get Physical component score (PCS) and Mental component score (MCS). Students T– Test was used to analyse the data. The PCS of Group A and Group B had mean(SD) 53.56±5.61 and 56.47±4.10 respectively, did not reveal statistically significant results (with t value 2.44 and p value 0.17). MCS of Group A and Group B had mean(SD) 42.99±8.69 and 50.42±7.92 respectively was found to be statistically significant ( with t value 3.68 and p value 0.00). Conclusion: Smoking may affect quality of life as the scores of mental component were significantly reduced in smokers as compared with non–smokers. The scores of Physical component were also reduced even though statistically not significant in smokers as compared with non–smokers.