Publication: Factors related to tobacco use among middle school students in China
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2011-09-01
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01251562
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Mahidol University
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Southeast Asian Journal of Tropical Medicine and Public Health. Vol.42, No.5 (2011), 1249-1261
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Yue Qing, Lakkhana Termsirikulchai, Poranee Vatanasomboon, Dusit Sujirarat, Chanuantong Tanasugarn, Mondha Kengganpanich Factors related to tobacco use among middle school students in China. Southeast Asian Journal of Tropical Medicine and Public Health. Vol.42, No.5 (2011), 1249-1261. Retrieved from: https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/20.500.14594/12321
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Factors related to tobacco use among middle school students in China
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The objectives of this study were to determine the status of tobacco use among middle school students in China, and to identify factors related to tobacco use. The study was conducted in December 2009. An ecological model was used to formulate the conceptual framework of the study. Three thousand two hundred twenty-one middle school students aged 12-17 years were selected by three stage stratified cluster sampling. Data were collected by self-completed questionnaires and interviews. The prevalence of current smoking was 10.6%; 16.2% among males and 4.3% among females. The prevalence of ever having smoked was 19.7%, 25.3% among males and 13.4% among females. Zero point seven percent of middle school students used other forms of smoked tobacco products other than cigarettes. Multinomial logistical regression analysis found gender, age, knowledge, attitude, life skills, self-concept, parental smoking, friends smoking, friends attitudes toward smoking, peer pressure, family rules, availability of cigarettes, tobacco-free school environment, smoking intervention program, community tobacco control activities, and tobacco control policies had significant associations with smoking behavior. Structural equation modeling (SEM) analysis found intrapersonal factors had direct relationships with smoking behavior among smoking middle school students. Interpersonal factors, organizational factors and policies had indirect relationships with smoking behavior, and through intrapersonal factors affected smoker behavior among middle school smoking students.