Relationship of Smoking and Anxiety Levels on Student Faculty of Medicine, University of North Sumatra Semester II Academic Year 2012/2013

Abstract

Depression and anxiety in adolescents has been known to be a powerful predictor of smoking experimentation and change to become smokers every day. The objective of the present study is to investigated the relationship between smoking behavior with the level of anxiety among students of the Faculty of Medicine. Participants were 75 male medical students who study in medical college University of North Sumatra and smoke within the last 30 days. Anxiety was assessed using Hamilton Anxiety Rating Scale (HARS). The association were assessed using Spearman test. There are no relationship between smoking behavior with the level of anxiety in the second semester students of Faculty of Medicine, University of North Sumatra Academic Year 2012/2013.

Keywords : addiction, anxiety, smoking