Transtheorethical model-based education given for smoking cessation in higher school students

Abstract

This study was carried out from 15 February 2007 to 02 January 2008 to evaluate the effect of Transtheoretical Model-based education given to high school students for smoking cessation. The population of the study consisted of 90 students who study at the 1st and 2nd years of a high school in Erzurum and who smoke. The sample of the study included 75 volunteer students: 15 students in total are excluded from the study. The remaining 60 students were divided into the experimental (n = 30) and control (n = 30) groups using the simple random sampling method. The students in the experimental group were given Trans-theoretical Model-based planned education, and students in the control group were not given any education. As a result of last tests of the experimental and the control groups, it was observed that there was a statistically significant difference between measurements of "Social interaction and habit strength" (p = 0.003), which is a subscale of it and "Temptation scale total score" (p = 0.004), "Being able to cope with the social environments and negative sense (p = 0.03), "Being able to cope with the habit strength" (p = 0.001), which are subscales of "Self-efficacy scale", "Processes of change scale" total score, and its subscales: "Conscious raising" (p = 0.006), "Dramatic relief" (p = 0.001), "Environmental reevaluation" (p = 0.035), "Self-reevaluation" (p = 0.007).