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KMID : 1020220100100050917
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Journal of Korean Society of Dental Hygiene
2010 Volume.10 No. 5 p.917 ~ p.924
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A study on the smoking status of the university students in some regions
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Lee Min-Young
Yoo Ja-Hea
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Abstract
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Objectives: The objective of this research was to investigate the smoking state of students in Y university, located in Youngdong-gun, Choungbuk.
Methods: This research was conducted toward 311 number of students in the university. The questionnaire basically consists of the status of smoking, the behavior of smoker and non-smoker.
Results: 58.2% of the male respondents were current smoker, but 72.4% of the females were non-smoker. 58.2% of the current smokers were 22 to 25 aged group. The highest rate of time to begin with smoking was in 15 to 18 years old and the most of people consumed 11 to 20 pieces of cigarettes per day. 48.9% of the students have an experience to keep no smoking more than one month. There were reverse correlation(r=-.335) between the status of smoking and sex, and positive correlation(r=.264) between the status of smoking and an age. Of the people experiencing non-smoking, 55.3% were smoking ’everyday’ and 44.7% were ’sometimes’. The biggest part of the reason why stopped smoking was for ’the advices of other people’(25.5%), and ’Harm to health’ and ’Social atmosphere of non-smoking’(21.3%) were following.
Conclusions: In the university students, current smokers among male students were still high smoking rate. Therefore Dental Hygiene students in the same University have to provide the quit smoking education and oral health care methods for current smokers.
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KEYWORD
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smoking, quit smoking, university students
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