大專生吸菸行爲與菸害防制認知之研究－以美和技術學院爲例

A Study on College Students' Smoking Behaviors and Recognition of Tobacco Hazard Prevention and control-Meiho Institute of Technology as an Example

鄭佳玟(Chia-Wen Cheng) ； 莊德豐(Der-Fong Juang) ； 薛夙君(Shu-Chun Hsueh)

《美和技術學院學報》 27卷1期 (2008/03) Pp. 121-138

https://doi.org/10.7067/JMHIT.200803.0121

摘要

According to the statistical data from World Health Organization (WHO), about four million people in the world died early every year due to smoking-related diseases. This means that one in five smokers could die due to the tobacco hazard. How the number of smoker can be reduced and how the human health and the life quality can be improved have become big issues. Therefore, this article discussed the college students' smoking behaviors and depicted their recognition of tobacco hazard prevention and controlled with the day school college students in Meiho Institute of Technology as surveying samples. 385 questionnaires were distributed, and the returning rate was 100%. However, after the deduction of 42 ineffective questionnaires, 343 effective questionnaires were obtained with the effective questionnaire rate of 89.09%. The data in those effective questionnaires were then used for evaluation and statistical analysis. The results of this study showed that the smoking rate was 28.2% for male students and 4.2% for female students. Students who are unwilling to stop smoking might show much stronger smoking behavior. This study also found that the smoking behavior of students was strongly related to their family factors. As far as the surveyed students who were smokers are concerned, the percentage of smokers (13.7%) if their fathers were also smokers was 2.54 times more than the percentage of smokers (5.4%) if their fathers were not smokers. The percentage of smokers (19.2%) if their mothers were also smokers was 2.74 times more than the percentage of smokers (7.0%) if their mothers were not smokers. Usually, schools were the first place where the students start their smoking behavior, and curiosity was always the primary reason for students to start smoking the first time. More than half (=63.3%) of the students agreed with the complete prohibition of smoking in public places very much. However, the students with smoking behaviors showed lower interests in support of complete prohibition of smoking in public places. The recognition regarding the effects of smoking behavior on individuals appeared significantly different (P＜0.05) between smokers and non-smoker (including the persons who have quit smoking). Smokers always thought that smoking behavior would not affect their class practices, social interaction and life but would alleviate their pressures. Significant differences (P＜0.05) about the effects of smoking behavior on individual class practice, emotion and pressure release were found between male and female. After the analysis of multiple logistic regression, we found sex, whether mother is a smoker or not, monthly income and recognition of tobacco hazard effects were the major factors affecting the smoking behavior of college students. Concerning the recognition of tobacco hazard prevention and control, only 3.2% of the students could answer all questions correctly. There was a significant difference (P＜0.05) on the recognition of tobacco hazard prevention and control between the college students with their economic sources from their parents’ offering and from their part-time work.

關鍵字

吸菸行爲 ； 菸害防制認知 ； 大專生

並列摘要

According to the statistical data from World Health Organization (WHO), about four million people in the world died early every year due to smoking-related diseases. This means that one in five smokers could die due to the tobacco hazard. How the number of smoker can be reduced and how the human health and the life quality can be improved have become big issues. Therefore, this article discussed the college students' smoking behaviors and depicted their recognition of tobacco hazard prevention and controlled with the day school college students in Meiho Institute of Technology as surveying samples. 385 questionnaires were distributed, and the returning rate was 100%. However, after the deduction of 42 ineffective questionnaires, 343 effective questionnaires were obtained with the effective questionnaire rate of 89.09%. The data in those effective questionnaires were then used for evaluation and statistical analysis. The results of this study showed that the smoking rate was 28.2% for male students and 4.2% for female students. Students who are unwilling to stop smoking might show much stronger smoking behavior. This study also found that the smoking behavior of students was strongly related to their family factors. As far as the surveyed students who were smokers are concerned, the percentage of smokers (13.7%) if their fathers were also smokers was 2.54 times more than the percentage of smokers (5.4%) if their fathers were not smokers. The percentage of smokers (19.2%) if their mothers were also smokers was 2.74 times more than the percentage of smokers (7.0%) if their mothers were not smokers. Usually, schools were the first place where the students start their smoking behavior, and curiosity was always the primary reason for students to start smoking the first time. More than half (=63.3%) of the students agreed with the complete prohibition of smoking in public places very much. However, the students with smoking behaviors showed lower interests in support of complete prohibition of smoking in public places. The recognition regarding the effects of smoking behavior on individuals appeared significantly different (P＜0.05) between smokers and non-smoker (including the persons who have quit smoking). Smokers always thought that smoking behavior would not affect their class practices, social interaction and life but would alleviate their pressures. Significant differences (P＜0.05) about the effects of smoking behavior on individual class practice, emotion and pressure release were found between male and female. After the analysis of multiple logistic regression, we found sex, whether mother is a smoker or not, monthly income and recognition of tobacco hazard effects were the major factors affecting the smoking behavior of college students. Concerning the recognition of tobacco hazard prevention and control, only 3.2% of the students could answer all questions correctly. There was a significant difference (P＜0.05) on the recognition of tobacco hazard prevention and control between the college students with their economic sources from their parents’ offering and from their part-time work.

並列關鍵字

Smoking behavior ； Recognition of tobacco hazard prevention and control ； College students