Villagers are not affraid to die : qualitative study of community cohesion on pictorial warning on cigarette packaging with Grounded Theory approach in Yogyakarta

Abstract

Orang desa tidak takut mati": studi kualitatif koping masyarakat terhadap peringatan bergambar pada kemasan rokok dengan pendekatan grounded theory "Villagers are not afraid to die" : a qualitative study of community cohesion on pictorial warning on cigarette packaging with grounded theory approach in Yogyakarta Abstract Purpose: The purpose of this study was to explore community's coping with a pictorial health warning on cigarette packaging. Methods: A qualitative study was conducted using grounded theory design. The study was conducted in the rural area of Sambirejo, Prambanan sub-district, Sleman, Yogyakarta.Data were collected by in-depth interviews and focus group discussions (FGD). Subjects were selected purposively with a maximum variation technique. Results: The perceptions, beliefs, coping, adaptation period, and smoking behavior remained mostly unchanged after seeing pictorial warnings on cigarette packaging. Conclusions: Coping was influenced by perceptions, beliefs, and the period of adaptation to pictorial health warnings. The period of adaptation changed some feelings and coping prior to the pictorial health warning, while pictorial health warning on cigarette packs appeared to make non-smokers increasingly want to smoke.

Strict and Comprehensive Tobacco Control Policy is Needed: A Qualitative Study Exploring How People Responding a New Policy of Pictorial Health Warning on Cigarette Package in Indonesia

“…This study was part of a wider mixed-methods study to measure how effective the implementation of PHW to render people from smoking. Those results reported [15], [16], [17] and published elsewhere. The findings from the qualitative parts of that wider study were important to be comprehensively analyzed and published in this article.…”

“…However, smokers choose to keep smoking. We reported elsewhere, some smokers extremely claimed they are not afraid to die for the sake of smoking [17]. The smokers feel fortunate for the government is half-hearted in controlling smoking.…”