Summary
Estimating the epidemiological situation of smoking and motivation to quit smoking among the student population in Kaunas universities.
Public Health Educology
Mindaugas Škėma
Supervisor Vaclovas Šveikauskas, Dr., Department of Preventive medicine.
Faculty of Public Health, Kaunas University of Medicine.– Kaunas, 2005. – P. 59
Objective: To estimate the epidemiological situation of smoking and motivation to quit smoking among the student population in Kaunas universities
Methods: the smoking situation was assessed by spreading questionnaires among students in Kaunas universities. The systematic random sample of the target population was 706 students of undergraduate studies; 410 females and 296 males. Respondents were 18-30 years of age. Statistical data analysis was performed with the statistical package SPSS 11.0 for Windows. The differences inside the sample were tested with Pearson’s χ2 – test, to find the difference among means a Stjudent’s t – test was used.
Results: 19,9 percent of females and 25,7 percent of males are daily smokers. There is a stronger relationship between respondents smoking if their parents and/or friends are smokers. 53 percent of smokers have tried to quit smoking. 52 percent of respondents have gained advice to quit smoking and most often they give preference to family influence. 52 percent of smoking respondents want to quit. Responses wanting to quit smoking were significantly higher if advice to quit was obtained.
Conclusions:
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| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LABT_ETD/oai:elaba.lt:LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2005~D_20050608_134733-92341 |
| Date | 08 June 2005 |
| Creators | Škėma, Mindaugas |
| Contributors | Zaborskis, Apolinaras, Milašauskienė, Žemyna, Grabauskas, Vilius, Kaunas University of Medicine |
| Publisher | Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), Kaunas University of Medicine |
| Source Sets | Lithuanian ETD submission system |
| Language | Lithuanian |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Master thesis |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://vddb.library.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2005~D_20050608_134733-92341 |
| Rights | Unrestricted |
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