Factors Related to Electric Smoking among Male Vocational Students in Buriram Province
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Factors, Electronic cigarettes smoking, AdolescentsAbstract
The number of electronic cigarette smoking among adolescents is increasing continuously because of the belief that e-cigarettes are safer than regular cigarettes. The purposes of this research were to study the experience of electronic cigarette smoking and to examine the factors related to electronic cigarette smoking among male vocational students. The sample were 338 vocational certificate students in Buriram province.Data were collected with self-administered questionnaires including demographic data, smoking, attitude towards e-cigarette smoking, smoking law perception, school relationship and stress. Cronbach Alpha and KR 20 were used to test the reliability of those questionnaires. Descriptive statistic and binary logistic regression were used for data analysis
The results of the research were as follows study demonstrated that 59.8 % experience of electronic cigarette smoking . The mean age of e-cigarette smoking initiation was 15.6 years (SD =1.56 ). The factors significantly associated with e-cigarette smoking were school relationship (AOR = 2.17, 95% CI = 1.257-3.768), peer-persuasion to smoke (AOR = 2.92, 95% CI = 1.7102 -5.007), peer cigarette smoking (AOR = 2.49, 95% CI = 1.411-4.423), peer e-cigarette smoking (AOR = 2.69, 95% CI = 1.546-4.698), and e-cigarette accessibility (AOR = 1.74, 95% CI = 1.011-3.085).The results of this study will be beneficial to health personal, teachers, and people involved to develop an effective program to prevent Thai male adolescents from e-cigarette smoking.
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