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KMID : 0858820100270040007
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Journal of Korean Society for Health Education and Promotion
2010 Volume.27 No. 4 p.7 ~ p.16
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School Smoking Rate as a Social Factor Affecting the Adolescent Smoking in Korea: Multilevel Analysis
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Byeon Jin-Ok
Cho Young-Tae
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Abstract
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Objectives: To obtain a more intensive understanding smoking behaviors of young adolescent in the contexts of schools which they attend, this study examined the effects of individual and school level factors divided into psychological and social factors respectively.
Methods: Multilevel logistic regression analysis was used to test the effects of school smoking rates on 1 year smoking experience of individual pupils in a sample of 3,449 students from 100 middle schools in Korea.
Results: The results of multilevel analysis revealed the importance of social factors in three environments. Especially the social factors in school level, which were sense of school membership and school smoking rate, explained the variances between groups dropping the school effect from 0.194 to 0.046.
Conclusion: This study suggests that adolescents" smoking behaviors are related to the multi dimensional and multi level factors. To reduce young adults" smoking rate, school level intervention should not be ignored.
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KEYWORD
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Adolescent smoking, Multilevel analysis, Social factors, School level
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