Prevalence and related risk factors on smoking among pupils in Shandong province

VernacularTitle:2012年山东省小学生吸烟现状及影响因素调查
Author: Xia WEI ¹ ; Tong SUN ; Pei-Jing ZHOU ; Ren-You CHEN ; Dian-Min KANG
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1. 山东省疾病预防控制中心
Keywords: Smoking; Influence factors; Pupil
From: Chinese Journal of Epidemiology 2013;34(11):1091-1095
CountryChina
Language:Chinese
Abstract: Objective To study the prevalence of smoking and its influential factors among pupils in Shandong.Methods A multi-stage stratified-cluster random sampling method was used in the survey.6050 students from 3 different cities of Shandong province were selected as the study population.A self-administered anonymous questionnaire was designed and the survey was conducted by trained investigators.Results The rate of attempting smoking among pupils under study in Shandong province was 6.0％ while the current smoking rate was 1.2％.The average age of children who initiated smoking cigarette was 7.8 ± 2.1 with 80.5％ of them due to curiosity.34.7％ of them got the cigarettes from their families.In terms of the motivation of buying cigarettes,74.3％ of them claimed that the access to purchase was easy.Data from multivariate unconditional logistic regression analysis showed that the smoking behavior of pupils was influenced by their familial or surrounding environments.Conclusion Tobacco control programs on pupils should be strengthened with more powerful control measures including health education.