Analysis of the requirements for smoking cessation activities in High schools and colleges in the A.C.T
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1983
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Rose, John L
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This thesis is in two parts. The first part is a
review of the literature pertinent to adolescent smoking
behaviour . Factors involved in the adoption and maintenance
of smoking behaviour are discussed. It then describes the
types of smoking intervention programmes used with
adolescents to date and highlights the lack of any widely
available and effective help with smoking cessation for
this age group. A methodology for predicting intentions to
smoke and developing intervention programmes, based on a
model by Fishbein and Ajzen (1980) is presented.
The second part of the thesis describes the
development of a questionnaire. This was used to discover
the demand for help with smoking cessation in adolescents .
It was also used to gather data for the prediction of
intention to smoke and for the development of intervention
programmes, using the components of Fishbein and Ajzen's
model . This questionnaire was used to survey 667 high
school students from years 8 to 12 in the Australian
Capital Territory.
Results from the survey indicated that 2 54 (38%)
of adolescents had smoked in the last month. Out of these
100 (40.1 per cent) said they intended to stop smoking and
77 (29.8 per cent) said they would like help with giving
up. This represents a large demand from adolescents for
help with smoking cessation.
Fishbein and Ajzen's model was found to have
significant predictive ability for smoking intention. Both attitude and subjective norm components of the model
contributed to its predictive power when applied to the
entire sample. Both components contributed to the models
predictive power when applied to non smokers alone, however
only the attitudinal component contributed significantly to
the prediction of smokers' smoking intentions . This
indicates that non-smokers' intentions to smoke, or not,
are more likely to be influenced by social factors than
smokers .
The individual contribution of components of the
model were analysed. Non-smokers and smokers that wanted to
give up were different on a wide range of factors. This
implies a broadly based intervention programme would be
most likely to help smokers give up. However, there were
some areas where differences were particularly large. These
areas are considered with regard to their implications for
the development of specific cessation techniques.
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