Research on current situation of smoking and influencing factors among students of a medical college in Chongqing / 重庆医学

ABSTRACT

Objective To understand the current situation of smoking among students of a medical college in Chongqing and its influencing factors .Methods By applying the stratified cluster random sampling method ,1 437 students were sampled from 5 facul-ties 3 grades in this college for conducting the smoking questionnaire investigation .Results The smoking rate was 12 .69% ,which in males and females were 32 .59% and 3 .51% ,respectively .Among them ,the nursing faculty and the grade 1 had the lowest smok-ing rates ,which were 4 .02% and 8 .84% respectively ;the smoking rate in the students from different origins had no statistical difference(P>0 .05) .The influencing factors of smoking included male ,faculty ,fresh students ,parents with smoking habit ,drink-ing and the knowledge acquistion frequency of smoking harmful to health ,etc .Conclusion It is imperative to strengthen the fre-quent smoking control education and intervention among the students in the medical colleges ,especially to males and the fresh students ,for effectively reduce the smoking rate .