The Prevalence and Affecting Factors of Smoking Among the Students of Samsun School of Health Sciences in Ondokuz Mayis University

Abstract

This study has been planned to define the level of knowledge of the student samsun school of health sciences student about the cigarette smoking and its hazards. That the students have been educated and then evaluated their knowledges. The research is astudy of descriptive characteristic. The data were colleced between 15-30 december 2006. Were formed 310 student in between all students (450 person) in samsun school of health sciences included in the study. Data collection instrument: A questionnare form of 27 questions, including checklist in the students was used as data collection instrument. SPSS 10.0 was used for data analysis and the differentiation was assessed by chi-square analysis was accepted statistically significant. According to the finding of the research, the prevelence of ever-smokers was 18.7%, ex-smokers 8.1%, never-smokers was 73.2% recpectively. Of thos who were using cigarette 17.4% started using cigarette with friend's encouragement, 7.7% with a desire to try and 76.5% received training related to smoking. İn our study, health counter effect are reported as the first reason of give smoking. There has been statistically found significant between smoking, age, parents education status, smoking parents and smoking education status (p<0.05). In the research it was observed the smoking rates among high school students were significantly lower then that of reported in the other research.