Lately rapid increasing of adolescents smoking causes serious society and education problem. Adolescents' smoking had an harmful influence mental health as well as physical health.
The purpose of this study is to show the effect of Nonsmoking Educati...
Lately rapid increasing of adolescents smoking causes serious society and education problem. Adolescents' smoking had an harmful influence mental health as well as physical health.
The purpose of this study is to show the effect of Nonsmoking Education Program on recognition and attitude about smoking of middle school students and to improve the effect of health life and recognition switchover in school through analyzing the change of students' smoking amount, knowledge on the harm of smoking and the attitude toward smoking of pre-post of Nonsmoking Education.
The subjects of this study are 120 first and third graders of coeducational D and K middle school in Kochang-gun which is located in a rural area.
The research instruments used in this study were questionnaire about present smoking behavior, the degree of knowledge on the harm of smoking and the attitude toward smoking behavior. I modified and improved the questionnaire which had been developed by adolescent protection committee(2002).
Analysis of data was done by using SPSS PC+ 10.0 program. General character and actual condition of smoking were analyzed by frequency and percentage.
The difference of smoking amount, the change of knowledge and attitude on smoking between the experimental group and the comparative group were analyzed by t-test. The correlation among knowledge, attitude on smoking and smoking amount was analyzed by Pearson's Correlation Analysis.
The results of this study are as follows.
First, nonsmoking education program reduced the quantity of cigarettes smoked per day and was helpful on nonsmoking.
Second, nonsmoking education program also increased the level of knowledge on smoking harmfulness.
Third, nonsmoking education program changed the attitude toward smoking behavior into more negative one.
According to above the result of study, Nonsmoking Education Problem increased the knowledge of smoking and changed negatively the attitude of smoking. So it was helpful to middle school students' nonsmoking and smoking prevention.