Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
HEALTHMED, cilt.5, sa.6, ss.1597-1604, 2011 (SCI-Expanded)
This study has been conducted to determine the primary-school students' habit of smoking and the factors concerned. The universe of the study contains 20253 students in the second stage of the primary schools in Erzurum but data have been collected from 1136 students. In evaluating the data, percentage rates and chi-square test have been used. The evaluations have shown that the frequency of the students smoking regularly is 10.1%; that of those smoking occasionally is 6.4%; the rate of their parents' smoking is 74.3%; the rate of their friends' smoking is 15.5%; the rate of the children as passive smokers is 68%; the rate of ignorance about the damages of smoking is 28.8%. It has also been determined that 84% of the students who had already tried smoking (16.5%) did so at and below the age of 12. Also, 56.5% of the students reported that they smoked for the purpose of rising to the occasion. The difference between the incidence of children's smoking and their family members' habit of smoking, their sex, their friends' habit of smoking, their awareness of the diseases and damages caused by smoking and their classes has been found as statistically significant (p=.000).