Abstract：Objective To investigate the students’ attempts to smoke and related factors in primary and middle schools in Changping District, Beijing City, and to provide a scientific basis for performing tobacco intervention among the students. Methods A field questionnaire survey was conducted among 1,364 students selected from 9 primary and middle schools in Changping District by multi-stage stratified random cluster sampling from October to November, 2015. The contents of the investigation involved the students’ general information, current status of attempts to smoke, age of the first smoking, reasons for the first smoking, cognition and attitudes towards tobacco as well as factors associated with attempts to smoke. The impacts of different factors on the students’ attempts to smoke were analyzed.Results The rate of attempts to smoke in the pupils and middle school students in Changping District was 10.34%. The rate was higher in senior high school students than in vocational high school students (16.45% vs. 13.76%), pupils (16.45% vs. 7.53%) and junior middle school students (16.45% vs. 4.79%)as well as higher in boys than in girls, showing statistically signifianct differences (χ2=35.51, P=0.00; χ2=45.98, P=0.00). Among the students reported tobacco smoking, the first time of trying to smoke happened at 7 years of age or less (23.40%), followed by 8-9 years old (17.02%). The main cause was curiosity (54.61%). The risk factors of trying to smoke were as follows: boys (OR=3.02, 95%CI=1.97-4.63, P=0.00), daily pocket money more than 5 Yuan (OR=3.02, 95%CI=1.91-4.79, P=0.00), seeing others smoke at schools (OR=1.97, 95%CI=1.32-2.95, P=0.00), having a smoker among the 5 best classmates or friends (OR=4.28, 95%CI=2.79-6.56, P=0.00) and having seen smoking scenes on TV programs, videos or films (OR=1.76, 95%CI=1.19-2.61, P=0.01). Conclusions Attempts at smoking among the primary and middle school students in Changping District in 2015 were prevalent, and were also impacted by many factors. It is necessary to strengthen propaganda and education about the harm of smoking among the key groups and implement an integrated home-school-society tobacco-control strategy.
芦丹, 郭红侠, 张崛, 黄艳丽, 刘玉红, 刘晓培, 王金飞. 2015年北京市昌平区中小学生尝试吸烟行为及影响因素调查[J]. 实用预防医学, 2018, 25(7): 829-832.
LU Dan, GUO Hong-xia, ZHANG Jue, HUANG Yan-li, LIU Yu-hong, LIU Xiao-pei, WANG Jin-fei. Smoking attempts and possible influencing factors among primary and middle school students in Changping District, Beijing City, 2015. , 2018, 25(7): 829-832.
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