The smoking actual situation of Japanese junior high school students and the effects of education for smoking prevention
We performed smoking prevention education to Japanese junior high school students for the purpose of motivating smoking prevention and the non-smoking support to the family who is smoking. We carried out the questionnaire about smoking before and after the lecture to the students and judged the educational effects.
METHODS:
The object number was 4,876. They were divided into smoker group and nonsmoker group, the questionnaire items about smoking were evaluated, and the t test was performed between two groups and before and after education. Moreover, in order to clarify the factor of smoking, logistic regression analysis was conducted.
RESULTS:
Male students' smoking rate was 4.5% and female' was 1.8%. The smoker students had the interest to smoking intentionally compared with the non-smoker (OR, 6.01; 95% CI, 4.06-8.89). As for the non-smoker students, the numerical value changed intentionally after education by all the questionnaire items of "Interest to smoking", "Recognition to others' smoking", "Desire to lead others to prohibition of smoking ", "The troublesome feeling to others' smoking" and "the reason for the ability not to give up smoking". In the group of smoker students, only three items such as "Recognition to others' smoking", "Desire to lead others to prohibition of smoking ", "The troublesome feeling to others' smoking" changed intentionally after education. The education reduced the percentage of risk of "the interest to smoking" over smoking from " OR, 3.85; 95% CI, 2.50-5.94" to "OR, 2.88; 95% CI, 1.89-4.37".
CONCLUSIONS:
Education changed the all student's view over smoking dramatically and suppressed the interest to smoking for non-smoker students. However, the smoker students were difficult to suppress their interests to smoking by only one lecture. The program for smoker students was required for behavior modification, and the necessity of considering the intervention which piled up the number of times was indicated.