중학교 1학년 학생들의 흡연에 대한 지식, 태도에 관한 연구

A study on the Smoking Related Factors, Knowledges, and Attitudes of Middle School Students

The goal of this study was to explore the risk factors for smoking and knowledges, attitudes related to smoking, in order to prevent teenage smoking. To achieve this goal a self-administerd questionaire w as distributed to 560 1st grade male students in a middle school in Kwang-Ju city. Data was analyzed using statistical computer package, SPSS PC+ to determine if significant associations exist among the different variables. The findings were as follows: 1. About 24.4 % of the students aged 12〜 14 have ever smoked or are smoking currently, and about 42.5% of those who ever smoked started smoking at the age of 9. 2. Students with friends who smoke tended to have more experience in cigarrette smoking(p=0.000). 3. 5.6% of the student were intended to smoke in the future. But the majority of the students who is concern about their present health status, who were tempted to smoke in a smoking room and also who is with smoker in the family members were intended to smoke in the future. 4. Students who were not involved in some peer activities showed more negative attitudes regarding smoking(p=0.000), and had higher knowledges(p=0.164) than the students who were involved in some peer activities. The information obtained from this study will provide some basic data to develope a preventive intervention program of teenage smoking.