Physical Fitness of Adolescent Smoker

Adolescent smoking behavior has a bad influence on health and fitness. The purpose of this study was to determine vital capacity and hemoglobin level in smoker and non-smoker adolescent towards physical fitness. The study was quantitative research with surveys and measurement tests. The sample size was 40 adolescents which in the neighborhood of Gunungpati. We used t-test, MANOVA and post hoc test to determine the differences in smoker and non-smoker adolescent. This study showed smoker adolescents had lower vital capacity compared than non-smoker adolescents. The value of hemoglobin levels in smoker adolescents were higher than non-smoker adolescents so that it affect the low levels of physical fitness. For adolescents, it is expected to maintain physical fitness through physical activity and reduce the number of cigarettes consumed and even try to stop smoking for smoker adolescents..

Depression among Urban Adolescent Students of Some Selected Schools

To determine the factors related with depression among adolescent students, 165 male adolescent students aged 15 to 19 years from 2 urban schools and colleges were interviewed with semi-structured questionnaire during January to June 2012.The socio demographic details, smoking and depression histories were recorded. The Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (CES-D) was used to measure the presence of depression. Smoking behavior was measured by a number of questions. Almost 49% respondents were depressed and 66% were smokers. Most of the respondents started smoking around the age of 14.3 years (54.1%) by the influence of their friends. Among the smokers 82.7% were depressed while 17.3% were depressed among nonsmokers (?2=19.69, p=<0.001). Parental smoking affected 62.5% respondents for depression against 59.4% normal respondents whose parents were non smokers (?2=7.52, p=.006). Domestic violence (?2=18.4, p=<0.001), familial disharmony (?2=18.44, p=0.001), stressful events in the life (?2=21.38, p=<0.001), failure in love (?2=12.6, p=0.002) also played roles for depression. After adjusting the non significant factors in logistic regression, familial disharmony (p<0.001), smoking (p=0.005) and stress (p=0.04) became significant factors associated with depression. Depression level was higher among adolescent smoker than nonsmoker students.Faridpur Med. Coll. J. 2014;9(2): 73-75