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KMID : 0377619870520070443
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Korean Jungang Medical Journal
1987 Volume.52 No. 7 p.443 ~ p.451
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A Survey of the Attitudes toward Smoking among School Age Children
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Abstract
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The purpose of this study was (1) to investigate attitudes toward smoking among school age children, (2) to examine the health awareness in smoking, and (3) to find the differences in accordance with the area and sex under study, so that provide some informa-tion of the effective health education programs and guidance.
For the survey, 371 respondents were randomly selected from the two elementary schools in Seoul and. Jeju respectively, from June 2 to June 14, 1986.
The research method used in this study was content analysis. The respondents were asked to describe their feelings or opinions on smoking and the items were classified accord-ing to the categories which consist of physical, emotional, moral and other item.
For the analysis, descriptive statistics were mostly used by calculating frequencies, percentages and mean scores. T-test and analysis of variance were employed to test the differences and the statistical significance.
The results of this study are summarized as follows:
1. The negative attitudes toward smoking was clearly found throughout the study. 2. The item which was heavily loaded by the respondents was physical. 3. The attitudes toward smoking of children in the area of Seoul showed more nega-tive disposition than that of the children in Jeju. Especially, residential area makes the
differences in the items of physical and other.
4. There was no significant difference in attitudes toward smoking between male and female students. But the difference of sex was significant in the moral and other item of attitudes toward smoking. In other words, the attitudes toward smoking of male children showed more positive than that of female in the response of the moral item.
In conclusion, the results of the study indicate that, for the school age children, the independent health education program for smoking must be developed. More specifically, it would be reached by considering the effect of sex and residential area.
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