CORRELATIONS BETWEEN HEALTH BELIEFS AND SMOKING BEHAVIORS OF YOUTHS IN NA THON SUBDISTRICT, THAT PHANOM DISTRICT, NAKHON PHANOM PROVINCE
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Correlations, Health Beliefs, Behavior, Smoking, youthsAbstract
This cross- sectional study aims to determine the Correlations between Health Beliefs and Smoking Behaviors of youths in Na Thon sub-district, That Phanom district, Nakhon Phanom province. All 278 youth subjects were collected by interview questionnaires. Data were analyzed by the descriptive statistics, including percentage, median, and Pearson correlation were used for analysis.
The results revealed that 51.44% of youth were female, 37.78% of family members smoked, 16.19 percent of youth had smoked before. All youth has high a level of health beliefs overall and items. With the exception of perceptions of health beliefs from smoking at the highest level (mean = 4.58, standard deviation = .704), overall health belief perceptions were moderately positively associated with smoking-related health beliefs. Smoking self-protection behavior was statistically significant (r = .34, p < .01), but perceived barriers to smoking prevention were statistically low negatively associated with smoking self-protection behaviors (r = -.27, p < .01).
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