Effect of college nursing students on the prevention and control of passive smoking among teenagers in junior high school
10.3760/j.issn.1674-2907.2014.36.009
- VernacularTitle:护理专业大学生在中学生二手烟防控教育中的作用
- Author:
Xiaohua XU
1
;
Yue TANG
;
Xiaoxiao CHEN
;
Tao LIANG
Author Information
1. 100144 北京协和医学院护理学院
- Keywords:
Students,nursing;
Teenagers;
Passive smoking
- From:
Chinese Journal of Modern Nursing
2014;20(36):4563-4566
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
-
Abstract:
Objective To study the effect of tobacco control education conducted by college nursing students on improving teenagers ’ knowledge, attitude, belief and practice to passive smoking .Methods Totals of 91 teenagers in junior high school were selected and educated by the college nursing students .Questionnaires were used to measure teenagers ’ knowledge, attitude, belief and practice before and after the intervention . SPSS 18 .0 statistical software was used to analyze the data , chi-square test was applied to compare count data , and rank-sum test was applied to level data .P-value less than 0.05 was considered statistically significant . Results The baseline passive smoking rate was 58.2%.After the intervention, teenagers ’ knowledge, attitude, belief and practice of passive smoking were improved .The knowledge of “smoking is bad for health”“harm of passive smoking” “the heart disease caused by passive smoking” and“less harm of low tar tobacco”increased by 11.0%, 18.7%, 15.3% and 15.3%, respectively (χ2 =6.852, 13.401, 4.321, 4.397, respectively;P<0.05).The awareness of “normal behavior of adults” “solicit opinions from other people before smoking” “approve of no smoking at public places” “often ask others to stop smoking in front of oneself”and“encourage their parents to stop smoking” increased by 20.8%, 14.3%, 17.5%, 19.8% and 16.5%, respectively after the intervention (χ2/Z=8.126, 4.604, 5.660, -4.074, 5.385,respectively;P<0.05). Conclusions College nursing students as the educators of tobacco control can effectively improve teenagers ’ knowledge, attitude, belief and practice to passive smoking .
