J Korean Acad Community Health Nurs JKACHN Journal of Korean Academy of Community Health Nursing 1225-9594 2288-4203 Korean Academy of Community Health Nursing 10.12799/jkachn.2010.21.4.522 Original Article The Effects of Knowledge about the Harmfulness of Smoking and Attitude Toward Smoking Temptation for Middle School Students Chang Koung Oh 1 Byun Eun Kyung 2 Lee Nae Young 3 Choi So-Young 4 Jinju City Public Health Center, Korea. Visiting Professor, Department of Nursing, Silla University, Korea. Professor, Department of Nursing, Silla University, Korea. Professor, College of Nursing, Institute of Health Science, Gyeong-Sang National University, Korea. Address reprint requests to: Byun, Eun Kyung, Department of Nursing, Silla University, 100 Silladaehak-gil, Sasang-gu, Busan 617-736, Korea. Tel: 82-51-999-6237, Fax: 82-51-999-5176, byunek@hanmail.net 12 2010 04 04 2014 21 4 522 531 31 07 2010 17 12 2010 17 12 2010 © 2010 Korean Academy of Community Health Nursing 2010 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Purpose

The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of knowledge about the harmfulness of smoking and attitude toward smoking temptation for middle school students.

 Methods

A survey was conducted in this study on 745 students from 12 middle schools in the Y City. Data were analyzed with SPSS/WIN 12.0 using descriptive statistics, t-test, ANCOVA, Scheffe's test and multiple regression analysis.

 Results

There was statistically significant difference in knowledge about the harmfulness of smoking (F=2.88, p<.05) and attitude toward smoking (F=54.61, p<.001). And there was statistically significant difference in smoking temptations among tempting factors such as negative mood of individual (F=63.61, p<.001), positive mood of social situation (F=67.08, p<.001), habitualness (F=57.68, p<.001), weight control (F=33.01, p<.001), and others' smoking (F=73.13, p<.001).

 Conclusion

These results suggest that smoking-cessation programs to enhance the effectiveness of nursing interventions should be tailored to the level of smoking temptation and that educational programs should be developed for middle school students.

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Characteristics of the Subjects (N=724)

Subjects' Knowledge of the Harmfulness of Smoking, Smoking Attitude and Smoking Temptation (N=724)

Subjects' Knowledge of the Harmfulness of Smoking, Smoking Attitude and Smoking Temptation in Accordance with their Gender and Age (N=724)

KS=knowledge of smoking; SA=smoking attitude; NMI=negative mood of individual; PMSS=positive mood of social situation; WC=weight control; OS=others' smoking.

*p<.05; **p<.01; ***p<.001.

Subjects' Knowledge of the Harmfulness of Smoking, Smoking Attitude and Smoking Temptation in Accordance with Smoking-related Factors (N=724)

KS=knowledge of smoking; SA=smoking attitude; NMI=negative mood of individual; PMSS=positive mood of social situation; WC=weight control; OS=others' smoking; SH=smoking in he past, but not currently smoking; IS=intermittent smoking; RS=regular smoking.

*p<.05; **p<.01; ***p<.001.

Influences on Smoking Temptation

*p<.05; **p<.01; ***p<.001.