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en: Family Environment Factors to Impact on the Effect of the Smoking Prevention Educational Program for Elementary and Junior High School Students

en: Health

ja: Health


en: Characteristics of a Transactive Phenomenon in Relationships among Older Adults with Dementia, Nurses as Intermediaries, and Communication Robot

en: Intelligent Control and Automation

ja: Intelligent Control and Automation


en: The effects of smoking prevention education to high-school students, and its ripple effects to their families

ja: 高校生を対象とした喫煙防止教育の効果及び家族への波及効果

en: The aim of this survey was to clarify the effects of smoking prevention education to the highschoolstudents, and its ripple effects to their families. Participants were same group of630students.Questionnaire surveys were conducted, self-reporting and anonymous, immediately beforeand after the lecture meeting, and after8month in2011‐2012fiscal year. As a result, significantfavorable changes were observed in female students regarding the images of smoking and the predictionof behavior associated with smoking in the future. However, favorable outcome was notobserved among both male and female students after eight months. As useful educational contents,to help stop smoking behavior in the future, the causes of vulnerability to cancer and strongdependence on nicotine were pointed out. Significantly high rates were observed : male studentsselected the"economical reasons"", social responsibility"and"transition of smoking rate"; femalestudents selected the"effect on appearance"and"effect on babies". Also, the smoking rate of theparents of targeted students was lower than the national average, which revealed that their parentswere grappling with the problem of smoking abstinence, caused by the chance of having conversationsabout smoking with their family members. We conclude that it is necessary to construct theeducational contents appropriate for the characteristics of each targeted group including familybackground in order to make smoking abstinence a success. Future studies are also necessary todevelop effective educational continuous and periodical approaches of the lecture meeting, whichwill trigger the cessation of smoking and promote conversation within the family unit.

en: Shikoku Acta Medica

ja: 四国医学雑誌


en: Changes in high school students' attitudes towards smoking habits before and after the smoking prevention education

ja: 喫煙防止教育前後における高校生の喫煙に対する態度と意識の変化

en: In order to prevent the smoking habit, it is important to start a smoking prevention education (SPE)earlier. Implementing educational intervention with appropriate timing and content is necessary during and after the high school years when a smoking habit is easily formed. The purpose of this research was to clarify high school students' attitudes and beliefs towards smoking before and after SPE and to examine how to provide optimal SPE in the future. The subjects were 680 high school students in the A prefecture. The SPE was implemented, their attitudes and beliefs towards smoking habit were measured using a scale of``belief and attitude towards smoking habits'', and its changes were assessed before and after the education and eight months later. The scores showed significant change in negative attitude toward smoking habit immediately after the SPE. However, the survey after eight months showed the SPE effects were not maintained except one item. Gender and the presence or absence of smokers in their family was involved in the continuation of the effects of SPE. It was suggested that it is necessary to have an appropriate intervention method to the subjects' characteristics and the optimal intervention timing should be discussed and an approach to reinforce the continuance of effects of SPE are required for the SPE in the future.