The Relationship between Parenting Factors and Adolescents Smoking Behavior in Indonesia: A Cross Sectional Study

• Main Author: Desita Dyah Mukti Adityaningrum
• Other Authors: Bing-Long Wang
• Format: Others
• Language: en_US
• Published: 2013
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/46693825017403246928

碩士 === 亞洲大學 === 健康產業管理學系健康管理組 === 101 === Tobacco use continues to be the leading global cause of preventable death. Based on Global Youth Tobacco Survey data, by 2005 nearly two in 10 students (17.3%) were currently using any form of tobacco. Current cigarette smoking was highest in the European and American regions (17.9% and 17.5%, respectively) and lowest in the South-East Asian, Eastern Mediterranean, and Western Pacific regions (4.3%, 5.0%, and 6.5%, respectively). Boys were significantly more likely than girls to smoke cigarettes in the African, South-East Asian, and Western Pacific regions. Although peer smoking has been identified as a robust correlate of adolescent cigarette use, a growing literature highlights the important role of parental smoking, parenting behavior as well. This study is aimed to find the relationship between parenting factors such as parents smoking activity, parenting style and parental monitoring with adolescents smoking behavior in Indonesia. This study used data from Indonesia Global Health Students Survey 2007 which is the samples are students in junior high school level class 7-9. Total number of sample was 3,116 students from 49 schools all around Indonesia. This Descriptive analysis and Binary Logistic Regression were used in this analysis. The prevalence for students who are smoking was 34.5% for male and 2.1% for female. Students whose their parents are smoking were having high incidence rate of smoking compare to students whose their parents are not warm and do not do monitoring on them. After adjusting for some factors, male students were more likely to smoke when their parents also smoking and do not give warm parenting style. This situation was not happen in female students who are not affected by these parenting conditions. But both male and female students do not affected by inexistence of their parental monitoring behavior regarding their smoking behavior. As a conclusion, parenting factors, especially parents smoking behavior and parenting style, is more affected male students rather than female students regarding their smoking behavior in Indonesia. Both male and female students smoking behavior were not affected by inexistence of their parental monitoring behavior. Further study is needed to study more about this. Government and policy maker should also consider about parenting factors when they deal with adolescent smoking problem in Indonesia.