The Effects of Support and Participation in Tobacco Control Policy on Smoking Behavior / Quitting Smoking Intention Among Military Conscripts in Taiwan

• Main Authors: Shu-Hsia Lee, 李淑霞
• Other Authors: 陳靜敏
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2007
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/42135231833013549250

碩士 === 臺北醫學大學 === 護理學研究所 === 95 === The purpose of the study was to explore the relationship between Taiwanese military conscripts’ somking behavior/quitting somking intention and their support and participation toward Tobacco Control Policy based on the stages of behavior change of Prochaska’s Transtheoretical Model. The study design was a cross-sectional survey research. The participants were 972 conscripts who were servicing in the Department of Defense, the Army, the Navy, the Air Force, the Reserve, the Service, and the Gendarmeie cluster sampled in 4 parts of Taiwan. The self-administered structural questionnaire consisted of three parts: Support and Participation toward Tobacco Control Policy, Somking behavior/quitting somking intention and sociodemographic characteristics. Totally, 901 valid samples were collected. SPSS 13.0 was used for statistics analysis. The major findings were as followed. (1)The prevalence of current smoking was 40.0% during military service. Among 391 ever and current smokers, 59.6% were in precontemplation, 17.9% were in contemplation, 10.2% were in preparation, 7.4% were in action, 4.9% were in maintenance stages. (2) Age, education level, residential area, smoking habits of familis and ratio of smoking peers had significantly influence on subjects’ smoking behavior. Age, education level and ratio of smoking peers also had significantly influence on subjects’ stage of smoking cessation and qutting somking intention. (3) Level of support was positively correlated with participation in every domain of Military Tobacco Control Policy. (4)Age, education level, residential area, smoking habits of familis and ratio of smoking peers had significantly influence on both support and participation twoard Tobacco Control Policy. (5) Results of stepwise logistic regression analyses indicating that being high school graduateds and under, the Reserve, families with smoking habits, higher (>50%) ratio of smoking peerssiblings/partner smoking, higher support and participation toward tobacco hazard education; lower support and participation toward nonsmoking environment had higher related risk for being a smoker. Subjects who were older, higher support for nonsmoking enviornment regulation and higher participation in tobacco hazard education, and lower participation in nonsmoking enviornment regulation had higher relative risk for having quitting smoking intention. Based on results of this study, further implementation of tobacco control in military were recommended.