Smoking Status and the Related Factors in the Rural Elderly.
- Author:
Dal Hyun BEAK
1
;
Byung Deog HWANG
;
Hyo Jung MOON
;
Hee Jung YOON
;
Young Doo BACK
;
Sung Kook LEE
Author Information
1. Graduate School of Public Health, Kyungbook National University, Korea.
- Publication Type:Original Article
- Keywords:
Elderly;
Smoking;
Health status
- MeSH:
Activities of Daily Living;
Aged;
Female;
Humans;
Male;
Self-Assessment;
Smoke;
Smoking
- From:Journal of Agricultural Medicine & Community Health
2008;33(2):243-254
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
Abstract:
OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to examine smoking status and the relates factors in the rural elderly. METHODS: This study was conducted with 2,421 elderly people(male 1,273 and female 1,148) residing in the selected 25 villages, and face-to-face interviews with the subjects were made from January 1 through March 30, 2002. RESULTS: The average age of the male subjects was 72.7 and that of the female subjects 72.8. The investigation of smoking states showed that for male subjects, smokers accounted for 49.4%, nonsmokers 26.9%, and abstainers from smoking 23.7% and that for female subjects, smokers accounted for 18.3%, nonsmokers 75.4%, and abstainers from smoking 6.3%. The level of 'low ADL' was significantly higher in abstainers. In men, smoking rate had higher in alone, non-job, queerstreet, 'high ADL'. In women, smoking rate had higher in younger age, queerstreet, unhealthy, 'high ADL'. CONCLUSIONS: The smoking rate of the elderly was relatively high, especially at abstainers. The smoking status of elderly was correlated with age, family type, job, economic status by self-assessment, Self-recognition of health status, ADL level.
