Study of the Correlation between tobacco information, knowledge of smoking hazard, anti-smoke attitude and Their smoking behavior of High School and Vocational High School Students in Taipei City

[[abstract]]This research is based in cross-sectional survey method and in accordance with students from senior high schools and vocational high school in Taipei city. This study is used questionnaire survey by stratified-cluster random sampling method. Selecting 18 classes from first grade to third grade of second semester in academic year of ninety-seven for senior high schools and and vocational high school in Taipei. There are 906 questionnaires. The effective return rate is 93%, a total sample size were 840 students. The important summary is as follows, 1.The aspect of getting the tobacco information, tobacco information frequency with male have higher chance than female and whose anti-tobacco information attitude are more negative. The first grade students and students who have better test result, whose anti-tobacco information attitude are more positive. The students, who have the higher chance with tobacco information frequency and have more knowledge of smoking hazard, are more negative for anti-smoke attitude. Students have more anti-tobacco information attitude are more positive for anti-smoke attitude. 2.The average of answering correct questions with knowledge of smoking hazard for students is 68%, which is ranged in the middle level, senior high school’s students have better knowledge of smoking hazard than vocational high school’s students. 3.In this study, female and students who have better test results are more positive for anti-smoke attitude. The second grade students are more negative than first grade students or third grade students. 4.The smoking ratio for researched students is 12.1% and the students who have higher smoking ratio are male, vocational high school’s students, students whose test results are ranged at one third behind in the class. Under the control of social population variable , we discover the major forecasted elements are 「anti-tobacco information attitude」、「knowledge of smoking hazard」、「anti-smoke attitude」. The researched students, who are more negative for getting the anti-tobacco information attitude and anti-smoke attitude and more knowledge for knowledge of smoking hazard, are tended to smoke. Based on above findings, this study provided some suggestions and expecting the relevant organizations to pay more attention on the media’s influence and using this research as the reference to promote relevant media literacy to the students in the future.