Parent Educators for Teenage Smoking Behavior

Herawati, Lucky and Arief, Johan and Choirul Hadi, Mochammad and Khair, Abdul (2017) Parent Educators for Teenage Smoking Behavior. DE GRUYTER International Journal of Adolescent Medicine and Health, 201700 (17). pp. 1-8. ISSN 2191-0278 (In Press)

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Abstract

Abstract: Background: Several studies have shown that there is a significant relationship between teenagers and parental describe teenagers’ knowledge about smoking and its dangers, to reduce the status of teenage smoking behav- Methods: This was a quasi-experimental study, with a pretest-posttest group design. The respondents were 649 students from the 8th grade in junior high schools from three provinces in Indonesia divided into two in- tervention groups and one control group. The dependent variable was the implementation of parent educators (smokers and non-smokers) who were trained about smoking and its dangers. Data were analyzed by analysis of variance (ANOVA) and the Kruskal-Wallis test, with a significant level of 0.05. Results: The results showed that the smoking parent educator model increased the frequency of parent concern significantly and improved knowledge about the dangers of smoking insignificantly; whereas the non-smoker parent educator model decreased the number of respondents frequent smoking status insignificantly and re- duced the number of cigarettes smoked /day by the frequent smoker respondents significantly. Conclusion: The parent educator model can be used for preventing teenage smoking behavior.

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