الأعراض النفس-جسمية لمدخنات الشيشة بمحلية الخرطوم وعلاقتها ببعض المتغيرات

Abstract

This research aims at investigating the general characteristic of the psychosomatic symptoms among the female smokers of the water pipe (narghile) in Khartoum Locality and their relation with some variable. For the achievement of this objective the researcher adopted the descriptive method, and the study universe comprises the females who smoke the water pipe in Khartoum Locality, and the sample of the research consisted of 100 female smokers selected through the purposive method. The tools of the research included a questionnaire for the primary information prepared by the researcher, and the psychosomatic symptoms measurement scale, which has been adapted from the original version of Cornell`s measurement scale, Arabicized by Mahmud Abu El-Neel (2001). The researcher used several statistical techniques, including T-test for one sample, T-test for two independent samples, One Way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) and Tukey test. The researcher arrived at several findings, which are that: the general psychosomatic symptom of the water pipe female smokers in Khartoum locality and their relation with some variable are characterized as being high at the significance level of (0.05), and that there are no statistically significant differences in the psychosomatic symptoms of the members of the sample according to age, marital status and the place of origin at the significance level of (0.05), nor statistically significant differences in the psychosomatic symptoms of the members of the sample according to educational level and the period of smoking at the significance level of (0,05). In light of these findings, the researcher set forth several recommendations, the most important of which is that the Department of Research at the Ministry of Education should direct the universities and research institutes to conduct further researches on smoking of water pipe (Nargaile) and its harms to the community.