| Summary: | 碩士 === 中山醫學大學 === 護理研究所 === 94 === The purposes of this research are to investigate the influence factors of self-efficiency in smoking cessation, health belief, and smoking-related knowledge of the smokers at outpatient clinic in a hospital and the association between the three variables. This study was a cross sectional design. Total 156 smoker-patients or families were recruited at the outpatient clinic in a medical center in middle Taiwan during March to April in 2006. Purposive sampling was performed. A questionnaire was utilized including demographic data, nicotine addiction, smoking related knowledge, health belief attitude towards smoking cessation and self-efficiency in smoking cessation.. Based on the research objectives and the properties of variables, appropriate statistic methods were chosen. The methods include frequency, percentage, mean value, standard deviation, t-test, one-way ANOVA, Chi-square test, Pearson''s correlation analysis and so on.
The findings of this research can be summarized as follows. (1) Smokers with different ages, occupations, and education possess different smoking-related knowledge. The score in the “smoking-related knowledge” has positive correlation with the average score in “health belief”. (2) Health belief of a smoker was found to be associated with age, occupation, education and smoking history. The average score in health belief, perceived susceptibility, perceived severity and perceived benefits of not smoking have positive correlation with the education. In other words, better education leads to better health belief. (3) A smoker with lower nicotine addiction has higher self-efficiency in smoking cessation. (4) The self-efficiency of a smoker in smoking cessation is related to his or her attitude towards smoking cessation. In other words, the smokers who desire to quite smoking have higher self-efficiency in smoking cessation. (5) The “willpower” is the most common measure that the smokers took to quite smoking, followed by the “help from their families” and the “tobacco cessation hotline.”
The results of this research combined with health promotion can be used in health intervention/education in outpatient clinic, design of smoking cessation and group health education program, and smoking-cessation counseling. Besides, this research can help increase the smoking-cessation rate and decrease the medical cost.
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