Cigarette Smoking Behavior and Related Factors among Students in Junior High Schools: An Example of Taichung County

• Main Authors: Chia-Chen Wang, 王家甄
• Other Authors: Hsiao-Ling Huang
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2010
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/54331431400500847047

碩士 === 高雄醫學大學 === 口腔衛生科學研究所碩士在職專班 === 99 === Objectives: To explore tobacco knowledge, attitudes, the experience of smoking in significant others, tobacco marketing and media advertising, anti-smoking information, as well as the school tobacco-related curriculum impact on student’s smoking behavior in junior high school, Taichung. Methods: Cluster sampling was used to obtain a representative sample (n=901 with 95.6 % of response rate) among 1st to 3rd graders from 10 junior high schools in Taichung, Taiwan in 2009. We used high validity and reliability Chinese version Global Youth Tobacco Survey (GYTS) questionnaire to collect smoking behavior and its related factors. Logistic regression models were used to examine the influence variables on smoking status of school students. Results: There were 9.10% of current smokers among junior high school students (10.61% of male and 5.69% of female). Compared to non-smokers, found that boys and girls compared to the dangers of smoking than only 0.56 times (95% CI :3.90-17 .16); friends of students smoking friends not to smoke than students smoking rate in the hazard ratio was 8.18 times (95% CI :3.90-17 .16); know the health hazards of passive smoking some of the dangers of smoking than those who do not know who this matter 16.36 (95% CI :1.30-206 .40); that the more attractive girls smoking or have a positive view of this relative absence of such people who think smoking a hazard ratio of 8.25 times and 5.92 times (95% CI :2.43-28 .02 ) (95% CI :1.82-19 .30); offer free cigarettes by tobacco companies of the dangers of smoking than students not receiving free cigarettes, tobacco companies 3.00 times (95% CI: 1.565.76); did not receive any tobacco products on health-related courses compared to students who have received smoking of such courses is 3.02 times the risk ratio (95% CI :1.76-5 .19). Conclusion: The results further suggest that the government and health agencies should strictly enforce tobacco control policies to prevent youth access to free cigarettes by tobacco companies; schools should develop suitable tobacco control intervention programs including refusal skills and resist peer pressure in order to reduce the smoking behavior initiated in junior high school students.