Background: Increased smoking habits in school-age children Impact on perceptions about the dangers of smoking in school-age children. Perceptions in the form of school-age children are based on children’s experiences of exposure to smokers and smokers’ environments. Positive perceptions of the dangers of smoking school-age children who consider smoking habits to be a natural thing to do school-age children.
Objective: The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship of factors following the trends and factors of family smokers with perceptions about smoking in school-age children in Karawang, Indonesia.
Methods: Data was taken from the Karawang Community Health Center, where 67% of students found smoking behavior, 356 students were recruited in the district. t-tests and spearman ratings are used to analyze the relationship between smoking and factors following trends and family smoker factors.
Results: The relationship between following trends with perceptions of smoking for school-age children (p value = 0.02, r = 0.122) and the relationship between family smokers and smoking perceptions of school-age children (p value = 0.002,r=0.161).
Conclusion: Boys,smokingstatus,gettinginformationaboutsmoking, children Having parents who smoke, those who follow trends are a concern. It is recommended for health workers to provide innovative health information about the dangers of smoking in school-age children.
scite is a Brooklyn-based organization that helps researchers better discover and understand research articles through Smart Citations–citations that display the context of the citation and describe whether the article provides supporting or contrasting evidence. scite is used by students and researchers from around the world and is funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health.