177005 Effect of Health Education through an E-mail on Smoking Prevention and Smoking Cessation Program of Adolescents

Monday, October 27, 2008

Min-Jung Kang, PhD , Graduate School of Public Health, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, South Korea
Jae-Yong Park, PhD , Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, School of Medicine, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, South Korea
Pock-Soo Kang, MD PhD , College of Medicine, Yeungnam University, Daegu, South Korea
Kyeong-Soo Lee, MD, PhD , College of Medicine, Yeungnam University, Daegu, South Korea
The present study was performed to evaluate the effects of smoking education according to the education method after developing the contents of smoking prevention and cessation education using the e-mail, surveying changes in knowledge and attitude toward smoking in students due to education through an e-mail. The subjects of the present study were middle school students residing in two medium cities(Gyeongju-si and Andong-si) by surveying the entire classmates in randomly selected 10 homerooms in Korea. The final study subjects included 635 middle school students. Among them 332 students(experimental group) were educated to a smoking prevention program for 8 months from June 2003 to January 2004. The results of providing health education through the e-mail in middle school students showed that middle school students changed positively on knowledge and attitude. Based on the changes before and after the implementation of smoking prevention program between experimental and control group, the change of scores on knowledge were significantly different between the experimental group and the control group(p<0.05) and the change of scores on the attitude toward smoking was significantly different between experimental and control group(p<0.05).

The health education on smoking prevention and cessation program would be possible considering the rate of students reading the materials by an e-mail.

Learning Objectives:
to evaluate the effects of smoking education according to the education method after developing the contents of smoking prevention and cessation education using the e-mail

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: Superivsed this paper all the time.
Any relevant financial relationships? No

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