Factors associated with non-smoking high school male students'intention to smoke.

Abstract

Background : Intention to smoke is a strong predictor of future smoking behavior.There are several factors that related with intention to smoke. The purpose of this study were factors associated with non-smoking high school male students’ intention to smoke.

Method : This research design was a Cross - sectional analytical research. The participants were 85 non-smoking high school male students’ intention to smoke Khaosamingwittayakom School, Trad Province. Data were collected on August 2010. The instrument was a three part of questionnaires. Firstly, the part of assessing personal data and intension to smoke. Secondly, the part of attitude to smoke, with the reliability of 0.79. Finally, the part of self - efficacy to avoid smoking, with the reliability of 0.93. Data were analyzed by using frequency, percentage, arithmetic mean, standard deviation and binary logistic regression.

Results : The results of this study revealed that most male students had no intention to smoke now and six month later 72.94 percent, high level of self - efficacy to avoid smoking 55.29 percent disagree attitude to smoke 50.59 percent, parents no smoke 65.88 percent, close friends no smoke 65.88 percent, close friends no invited to smoke 54.12 percent. After
controlled other independent variables, self – efficacy to avoid smoking, attitude to smoke and invited to smoke from close friends were significantly correlation with male students’ intention to smoke (P< .05) whereas parents and close friends smoking were not significantly correlation.

Conclusion: Based on these findings, it is recommended that school administrator and health care providers should make policy and appropriate activities from result of this study for on non-smoking high school male students who intention to smoke.