The Relations between Smoking and Exposure to Anti-Smoking Promotion Media in Middle School Students.
- Author:
Sun Ok LEE
1
;
Jong PARK
Author Information
1. Department of Health Science, Graduate School of Chosun University, Gwangju, Korea.
- Publication Type:Original Article
- Keywords:
Smoking;
Mass media;
Adolescents
- MeSH:
Adolescent;
Humans;
Korea;
Logistic Models;
Mass Media;
Prevalence;
Risk-Taking;
Smoke;
Smoking
- From:Journal of Agricultural Medicine & Community Health
2009;34(2):223-233
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
Abstract:
OBJECTIVES: This study aimed to examine the relations between exposure to anti-smoking promotion media and smoking, targeting middle school students who were exposed to various media of promotion. METHODS: The subjects of the study were 38,820 middle school students who answered to the 2007 Korea Youth Risk Behavior Web-based Survey. Answers of 37,714 subjects were used for the final analysis except those of 1,106 that could not be used to judge anti-smoking promotion media and prevalence of smoking as they were considered insincere to the questions. We used SPSS of version 17.0. This study conducted a chi-square test to identify smoking rate according to characteristics of subjects and a multivariate logistic regression analysis to identify whether they are independently significant. RESULTS: Smoking rate increased as the subjects were in higher grades. From the results of multivariate logistic regression, odds ratio(OR) at points 5~6 of the first graders that had never been exposed to anti-smoking promotion media was 0.49(95% CI=0.33-0.74), which was significantly low. And OR at points 5~6 of the third graders was 0.57(95% CI=0.43-0.76), significantly low. CONCLUSIONS: This study identified the relations between exposure to anti-smoking promotion media and smoking of middle school students in Korea.
