Smoking behaviour among school adolescence in Gorakha district
| dc.contributor.advisor | Mahesh Kumar Gajurel | |
| dc.contributor.author | Shrestha, Ram Chandra | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-12-12T04:37:16Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2024-12-12T04:37:16Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2013 | |
| dc.description.abstract | A study was conducted to examine the smoking behavior among school adolescents of Gorkha District to generate information about smoking behavior and factors influencing to initiate the smoking by adolescence in high school to develop effective anti smoking plan and program to implement in adolescent education. The study was conducted using descriptive survey research design selecting the study district and school purposively. Eighty five smoker respondents were selected from the selected school as a sample. Data was collected by using face to face interview method and analyzed by using descriptive statistics. Findings showed that the respondents' age to start smoking begins from the age of 10 and found up 18 years. The main influencing factor to start smoking was peer pressure. Majority of the respondents 60 percent smoke little everyday, 51 percent respondents were regular and 34 percent smoke occasionally. Majority of the respondents (45.9%) smoked three cigarettes per day. Majority of the respondents (58.8%) uses toilets (home and school toilets) as a secrete place to smoke cigarette. Majority of the respondents (90.6%) took first puff with their friends followed by alone to meet their curiosity. Majority (83.5%) of the adolescents perceived their textbook course against smoking was ineffective.Majority of 78.8 percent adolescents claimed that they have knowledge about the harmful effects of smoking although they were use. The major sources of information to know about harmful effect of smoking were the television, radio, books, and newspapers. In majority of the respondents' (75.6%) family anyone member was smoker. Of the total respondents, majority (80 percent) of the respondents' parents did not know about their smoking habit. Most of the guardian (70percent) scolded their children after knowing about their smoking habit. More than half(55.3 percent) of the adolescents spent one to five rupees, and only one tenth students spent more than fifteen rupees each day in cigarettes. The source of money to buy cigarette was the money provided by their parents for stationary and Tiffin. Half (50 percent) of the adolescents were engaged in the sports and other recreational activities to quit smoking. Majority (76.5%) of the adolescents smokers wished to quit smoking.Majority of the respondents (74.1 percent) felt some discomfort in social activities as they try to hide their smoking habit. To reduce the smoking in adolescent especially parents must be aware about effect of smoking and counsel their children from early age. Legislation should be made to ban to sell cigarette in school and ten plus school premises. Effective school based educational programs focusing on smoking and its effects on various aspects should be planned and implemented effectively. Different intervention program should focus on different aspects like programs to discourage the uptake of smoking and awareness programs for the adolescents. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14540/23378 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | |
| dc.subject | Educational program | |
| dc.subject | Smoking plan | |
| dc.title | Smoking behaviour among school adolescence in Gorakha district | |
| dc.type | Thesis | |
| local.academic.level | Masters | |
| local.affiliatedinstitute.title | Balkumari Collage Narayangarh, Chitwan |