标题：Differences in the effects of anti-tobacco health education programme in the areas of knowledge, attitude and behaviour, with respect to nicotinism among boys and girls
期刊名称：Annals of Agricultural and Environmental Medicine
印刷版ISSN：1232-1966
电子版ISSN：1898-2263
出版年度：2013
卷号：20
期号：1
页码：173-177
出版社：Institute of Agricultural Medicine in Lublin
摘要：Introduction. Health education used for increasing the effectiveness of intervention ac tions should cover a number of factors which exert an effect on learning.O bjectve. Recognition of the extent to which gender may determine the effects of an anti-tobacco health education programme.Material and methods. The intervention study was undertaken in May 2007, and covered 859 first-year schoolchildren in Bia.ystok. The sample was selected by means of two-stage stratified sampling with consideration of two groups: an intervention group and a control group.Results. In the group of girls, the 2-year educational programme resulted in an increase in knowledge concerning the negative effects of cigarette smoking by 21%, and being familiar with anti-tobacco actions and campaigns carried out in Poland by 24.5%. Among boys, an increase was observed only with respect to the knowledge of anti-tobacco ac tions and campaigns – by 10.7%. Considering the attitudes of girls after the completion of the programme, changes were noted with respect to three from among the six elements analyzed. However, among boys, after completion of the projec t, no changes were noted in any of the analyzed elements of attitude. In girls who participated in the anti-nicotine programme, the percentage of smokers did not increase, while an increase in this percentage was observed among girls of the control group and boys in both groups.Conclusions. Different effects of the 2-year anti-tobacco programme obtained in the area of knowledge, attitude and behaviour should constitute a premise for the modification of educational programm es from the aspec t of the variety of methods, techniques and instruments which would be adequate for adolescents' predispositions resulting also from their gender.
关键词：Tobacco smoking; anti-tobacco health education programme; junior high school adolescents; gender; health education
