Factors Influencing the Perception of Second-Hand Smoke Effects among Undergraduate Students Who are Smoker

Abstract

The purpose of the predictive research was to study predicting factors of the perceived effects in the second-hand smoke among university students. The sample group was students who has smoked. Currently studying in the bachelor's degree amount 323 people. The research tool was a questionnaire to examine in the quality of the tool in term of Health Belief Models in the second-hand smoke and perceived effects in the second-hand smoke. Content validity was at .070 and 0.75, respectively, and reliability was the same at 0.89. Data were collected by word of mouth, starting with a student smoker who the researchers knew. Data were analyzed by using descriptive statistics and multiple regression statistics.

         The result revealed that the majority were female, aged 19 - 23 years on an average age of 20.69, currently studying in the faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, sharing dormitory with other. The smoking duration is between 0 and 14 years, started smoking at age 20 years, minimum age of 10, and several types of smoking which the researchers was unspecified. In the relationship, it was found that personal data factors were unrelated to the university students' perceived effects of second-hand smoke in overall and each aspect. Statistically significant (p<0.05) and the perceived factor of Health Belief Models regarding general second-hand smoke. It is related to the perceived effects of the second-hand smoke among university students. Statistically significant (p<0.05) was at a high level (r = 0.76, p = 0.00). In each aspect was found that perception of disease severity (b = 1.47, β = 0.46), perception of total Health Belief models (b = 0.38, β = 0.48) and perception of self-efficacy (b = 0.40, β = 0.15). There variables were able to predict the perceived effects in the second-hand smoke by 63.5 percent.