Title: Investigation on smoking behaviors and smoking-related knowledge and attitude among secondary school teachers
Abstract: Objective To realize smoking behaviors and their relationship with smoking-related knowedge and attitude among secondary school teachers.Methods All secondary school teachers in Huangpu district of Guangzhou were inquired with a self-administered questionnaire about socio-demographic characteristics,smoking behaviors,smoking-related health knowledge and attitude.Results Of 700 teachers surveyed,59.1% never smoked,18.1% ever tried to smoke,1.86% ever smoked daily,and 10.1% smoked currently.The total mean of smoking-related health knowledge was 8.53(maximum=14);the mean of knowledge about diseases caused by smoking (maximum=10)and harmful components in cigarette(maximum=4)was 5.73 and 2.40,respectively.The mean of smoking-related attitude was 33.21(maximum=45)for sociality effect of smoking;21.76 for smoking effects on appearance(maximum=25);20.96 for teachers' and health care workers' model role(maximum=25);9.20 for harmful effects of smoking on health (maximum=10) and 26.73 for measures for controlling smoking (maximum=30).No significant difference was observed on the mean of smoking-related health knowledge among the secondary school teachers with different smoking behaviors.By contrats,significant differences were obtained on the means of smoking-related attitude among the secondary school teachers with different smoking behaviors.Conclusion The teachers' smoking behaviors were significantly associated with the smoking-related attitudes,but not with the smoking-related health knowledge.
Publication Year: 2005
Publication Date: 2005-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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