Smoking Intervention Program For Male Secondary School Students | ||
| Egyptian Journal of Health Care | ||
| Article 34, Volume 9, Issue 4, December 2018, Pages 490-512 PDF (408.39 K) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/ejhc.2018.198493 | ||
| Author | ||
| Faten Fathi Ahmed Mahfoz | ||
| Lecturer in pediatrics nursing department–Faculty of Nursing –Suez Canal University | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Background: The smoking intervention program was conducted for 27 students in the study group and also controlled by another 27 students aged 14-18 years in male secondary schools. This study aimed to develop a smoking intervention program for male secondary school students. The study sample was systematic random sample technique. Students in the study group were divided into 5 groups each group consisted of 6 students. The program conducted in two days per week for three weeks in 12 hours, 8 hours theory and 4 hours practice or each group. The pre and post-test design to evaluate the program. The results found that the minority of the study group and the control group (3.7%) drink alcohol and take illicit drugs. 74.1% of the study group and 96.3% of the control group were moderately dependent on nicotine before the program. An equal percent of both the study and the control group (92.6%) had unsatisfactory knowledge about smoking before the program while all of the study had a good knowledge immediate the implementation of the program and 96.3% of them had a good knowledge after 3 months from the program. In the other hand the majority of the control group still had unsatisfactory knowledge about smoking immediate and after 3 months from the program. Only 7.7 % from the study succeeds to quit. Thence the study recommended that educational program about how to deal with smokers and non- smokers' students should be performed for the parents, school nurse and teachers. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Adolescents; smoking; bad habits; secondary school | ||
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