Effectiveness of School-based Smoking Prevention Program on Ecological Model in Adolescents

Yeon Hee Choi; Young Sun Ha; Min Ah Park

doi:10.0000/jkachn.2012.23.3.327

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Choi, Ha, and Park: Effectiveness of School-based Smoking Prevention Program on Ecological Model in Adolescents

Original Article

Journal of Korean Academy of Community Health Nursing

Journal of Korean Academy of Community Health Nursing 2012; 23(3): 327-337.

Published online: 30 September 2012

DOI: https://doi.org/10.0000/jkachn.2012.23.3.327

Effectiveness of School-based Smoking Prevention Program on Ecological Model in Adolescents

Yeon Hee Choi, Young Sun Ha, Min Ah Park

College of Nursing, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Korea.

Corresponding author: Ha, Young Sun. College of Nursing, Kyungpook National University, 101 Dongin-dong, Jung-gu, Daegu 700-422, Korea. Tel: +82-53-420-4925, Fax: +82-53-421-2758, hajin24@hanmail.net

Received 20 June 2012 Accepted 17 September 2012

Abstract

Purpose

This study examined the effectiveness of an adolescent school-based smoking prevention program.

Methods

The study was done with a nonequivalent control group pretest-posttest design. The subjects of the present study were 399 non-smoking high school students in Kyongbuk province. The subjects were divided into 184 experimental group members in G city who participated in a school-based smoking prevention program and 216 control group members in K city who did not participate. Data were collected from June to November 2011. collected data were analyzed using SPSS/WIN 18.0 through χ²-test, independent t-test and ANCOVA.

Results

The experimental group had significantly increased knowledge of smoking, knowledge of smoking prevention program, attitude of smoking, skill of smoking prevention in comparison to the control group.

Conclusion

The school-based smoking prevention program delivered to non-smoking adolescents is an effective method of encouraging smoking prevention and can be utilized as an effective nursing intervention for non-smoking adolescents.

Keywords: Ecological system, Tobacco smoking, Prevention, Schools, Adolescents

Figures and Tables

Figure 1

Research design.

Figure 2

Flow diagram of school based smoking prevention program on ecological model.

Figure 3

School based smoking prevention program on ecological model.

Table 1

The School-based Smoking Prevention Program

Table 2

Homogeneity Test for General Characteristics between Groups

Exp.=experimental group; Cont.=control group.

Table 3

Homogeneity Test for Dependent Variables between Groups (N=399)

Exp.=experimental group; Cont.=control group.

Table 4

Comparison of Scores between Pretest and Posttest in Two Groups (N=399)

Exp.=experimental group; Cont.=control group.

^†ANCOVA with pretest value as covariate.

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