ABSTRACT

Background: Oral cancer is 6th common malignancy worldwide. In the majority of cases, a wellestablished, preventable risk factor is involved which leading to oral cancer. In India oral cancer figuring as a leading cause of death and cancer. About 90% of oral cancer cases are squamous cell carcinoma most of them are beyond 40 years. Cultural, ethnic, geographic factors and the popularity with addictive habits, the frequency of oral cancer is high in India. Every year Estimated 657,000 new cases of cancer detected with oral cancer and more than 3, 30,000 people died with it. Main subside of oral cancer are lip, oral cavity, nasopharynx, and pharynx. Aims: Assess the risk factors of oral cancer and health related behaviour of adolescents. Method: A Non- Probability convenient Sampling Technique is carried out on 250 adolescent students are taken form 14 to 18 years selected school in waghodia taluka vadodara. The design used in this study is non- experimental Descriptive study. Descriptive and inferential statistics were applied to analyse the data by using SPSS-20 software. Result : Association between risk factor and health related behaviour social demographical variables of adolescences .significant variable is family type with X2 value is 5.264 with P value 0.022 ( 1df = 3.84)and residency area X2 value 7.598 with P value 0.006 (1 df = 3.84) and parents occupation X2 value 10.533 with P value 0.005 ( 2 df = 5.99 ), school performance with X2 value 7.826 with P value 0.020 ( 2 df = 5.99) Keywords: Oral cancer, Adolescents, Risk factor, Behaviour
Publication date: 15/12/2021

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https://doi.org/10.31032/IJBPAS/2021/10.12.1052