Impact of Health Education on the Knowledge, Attitude and practice Regarding Smoking Hazards among School going Adolescent Boys in Urban Area of Karnataka, India
Journal Title: IOSR Journal of Dental and Medical Sciences (IOSR-JDMS) - Year 2018, Vol 17, Issue 1
Abstract
Introduction: Poor personal hygiene, in combination with insanitary conditions and contaminated water, creates a serious public health threat to school children. Children are not conscious of personal hygiene at school level. For better knowledge health education is needed. Objective: To assess the change in knowledge attitude and practice regarding smoking hazards among school going adolescent boys after educational interventions. Material and methods: 4 schools Government and Private High School were taken by Universal Sampling. All of students of grade 8th, 9th and 10th were included. Baseline and end line survey was done in February and September 2013.Health education sessions were conducted once a week for six weeks. Paired t test and proportions were calculated. Ethical clearance and informed consent was obtained. Results: Pre- intervention the mean knowledge score of smoking hazards was 7.45±2.01 which was increased to 15.46±0.71 after health education intervention. The mean attitude score of smoking hazards was 8.67±3.31 which increased to 14.47±1.27 after health education intervention. After the health education intervention there was statistically significant increase in awareness of health problems associated with cigarette smoking. Conclusion: The study demonstrated that health education is effective in providing knowledge, changing attitude to cigarette smoking and it is recommended that continuous health education programmes on smoking and its hazards should be organized by institutions.
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Vijaya SD, Santosh . , M. D. Mallapur
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