Parent Educators for Teenage Smoking Behavior
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- Abstract: Background: Several studies have shown that there is a significant relationship between teenagers and parental describe teenagers’ knowledge about smoking and its dangers, to reduce the status of teenage smoking behav- Methods: This was a quasi-experimental study, with a pretest-posttest group design. The respondents were 649 students from the 8th grade in junior high schools from three provinces in Indonesia divided into two in- tervention groups and one control group. The dependent variable was the implementation of parent educators (smokers and non-smokers) who were trained about smoking and its dangers. Data were analyzed by analysis of variance (ANOVA) and the Kruskal-Wallis test, with a significant level of 0.05. Results: The results showed that the smoking parent educator model increased the frequency of parent concern significantly and improved knowledge about the dangers of smoking insignificantly; whereas the non-smoker parent educator model decreased the number of respondents frequent smoking status insignificantly and re- duced the number of cigarettes smoked /day by the frequent smoker respondents significantly. Conclusion: The parent educator model can be used for preventing teenage smoking behavior.