A Review of Qualitative Research on Teenage Smoking Habits
Grand Canyon University: NRS-433V-O103 Introduction to Nursing Research
September 20, 2012
Introduction The purpose of this document is to summarize the contents of the research article, explain the research methods implemented, and offer insight on how the findings contribute to nursing practice. Second, there will be an explanation of ethical considerations associated with the conduct of nursing research. Finally, the source document, “What Determines Teenagers' Smoking Behaviour?: A Qualitative Study” will be attached for review.
Summary
The articles purpose was to study smoking behavior among Malaysian teens. The specific areas of interest included: smoking
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The areas that affected teen’s interest in quitting included: athletic improvement, parents disapproval, health concerns, and lack of finances. Nurses can use the information from this study to reinforce the health promotion and benefits of being a non-smoker. The recognition of how parents affect smoking behaviors will aid the nurse in preparing education that is directed at the entire family to deter childhood and teen smoking. The contribution to patient care can be seen with health promotion assessment use. The conclusions were clear about teens needing a plan to quit after they reached the maintenance phase of smoking. This result alerts nurses to assess smoking in younger adolescence and offer assistance with smoking cessation.
Ethical Issues First, The Research and Ethic Committee of University Kebangsaan Malaysia gave approval before the study was started. Second, The Ministry of Education Malaysia offered authorization for interviews in the school system for children who were not involved in some type of major examination. Third, all of the teens along with parents provided a written and signed consent for participation. The confidentiality of current smoking status was kept intact and privacy was maintained. Lastly, at the conclusions of each interview the teens were offered smoking cession counseling at a doctor’s clinic. To ensure reliability of the study, several
This essay will discuss the issue of smoking in adolescents from the Australian society. The discussion will include a recent campaign that has been created to cut the morbidity rates of smoking in adolescents from the Western Australian (WA) region. The campaign “Smarter than Smoking” provided an effective health promotion strategies to reduce tobacco enhancement for adolescents aged 10-15 years old. The essay will provide a better analysis on tobacco consumption in adolescents. Thus, portraying the potential impacts of smoking at a young age in the Western Australian society. As well as, a discussion about the implementation of the program “Smarter than Smoking” and its effectiveness in society will be further analyzed.
Most often seniors in high schools can purchase cigarettes because they are 18, so they distribute them to underclassmen or friends. Nearly 21 percent of high schoolers in public schools smoke cigarettes, which would be about 3.13 million students (Preidt). My survey shows that only four percent, or two out of 49 people admit their addiction to cigarettes. The two students admitted that stress is their reasoning for why they began smoking and continue, but only one has support to end their need to smoke. While the student with assistance is continuing to smoke, they are attempting to stop; however, the effects of smoking are obviously severe (lung disease, cancer, bronchitis, etc.) and cannot continue. Cigarettes may be a partial stress reliever although the permanent and long-term effects should be proof enough that this addiction is a necessity to prevent in our high schoolers even if it is four
One health promotion idea that the nurse practitioner would discuss with a middle adolescent patient would be the need to avoid using tobacco products and the negative effects of using tobacco. An important fact to remember is that adolescent smokers are more likely than nonsmoking peers to use marijuana and hard drugs, sell drugs, have multiple drug problems, drop out of school, and experience early pregnancy and parenthood, so the importance of avoiding tobacco will be of high significance when performing education with an adolescent patient ( Burns, Dunn, Brady, Starr, & Blosser, 2013). At every visit, the nurse practitioner should asses the patient's smoking patterns with direct questions and ask if they or any of their friends smoke
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Dominique focused reasons why teenagers smoke such as peer pressure, availability, lack of thought, family issues, and stress-reliever.
Addiction and substance abuse is a personal fear in most people worldwide. Young people are more susceptible to experimenting with tobacco and alcohol, than middle aged or older people are. Most people reported smoking at the age or eighteen, when they could legally purchase
The purpose of this study is to “develops an integrative model that to examines the effect of parenting strategies on children's smoking progression, in which children's self-esteem plays the role of mediator” (Yang, & Schaninger, 2010, p 232). The author's point of view is that parents impact children's smoking development by governing self-esteem trajectories. He represented his opinion when he stated that, “parenting strategies influence children's smoking development and that the impact of these strategies is mediated by the child's self-esteem trajectory.”(Yang, & Schaninger, 2010, p 232).Also, the writer used evidence to support his claims by adopting the method of a multi-dimensional data from parents and children ages from 10 to 17. Moreover, the paper uses a valid and relevant evidence .since; the method applied is based on real experiment. And, Data derived from an experimental group that has a strong connection to the writer subject of
ABSTRACT. Today, smoking behavior is not only dominated by the adults, but also has penetrated the teenagers, especially young men. In the neighborhood often find the sight-teen boys gathered while smoking, which is often seen are usually idle moments they assembled in the shop, cafe or other public places
The analysis found that “ Unfortunately, less than 7% of those who try to quit achieve more than 1 year of abstinence. In fact, most individuals relapse within a few days of their quit attempt.” (Fritz et al., 2008) The adolescent population is facing a nicotine plague of epidemic proportions. Fitz et al., (2008) concluded that the majority of adolescents (82.3%) reported smoking as a means to relax. It is of interest to note that many smoked for emotional reasons, including stress reduction (75.0%) and feelings of depression and worry (68.8%). Fritz et al., (2008) further demonstrated the need for smoking cessation when their findings suggest that 43% of people between the ages of 10 and 22 years who smoke as few as three cigarettes a day become habitual smokers (CDC, 2004). These figures support the recent findings that the largest proportion (28.5%) of smokers is among people between the ages of 18 and 24 years (ALA, 2004). Seeing that this issue is one of the leading causes of death in the US based upon preventability. Researchers and clinicians alike are trying to find adequate addressing ways to increase smoking cessation effectiveness. Fitz et al., (2008) also conclude by saying that those adolescents who smoke are three times more likely to drink alcohol, eight times more likely to smoke marijuana, and 22 times more likely to use cocaine than adolescents who do not
To illustrate, several studies have identified social controls whose absence has caused adolescents to experiment and initiate in tobacco use. Starting at home, the influence of parental attitude and behavior toward adolescent smoking has a major impact on adolescent smoking. Newman and Ward (1989) sampled 735 students from 12 schools in and around one moderately sized Midwestern city, 18.5% of the sample were smokers. In this study, Newman & Ward asked the students questions via a questionnaire in order to rate the parental attitudes. One question asked was, "With regards to my smoking cigarettes, my parents/guardian would: threaten to punish me if I smoked; haven't told me how they feel if I smoke? ; have told me they don't care if I smoke" (Newman and Ward, 1989, p. 150). Two-thirds of the students reported that both parents would be upset if they smoked. An interesting note was that about two-thirds of the nonsmoking adolescents reported parental disapproval versus one-half of the smoking adolescents. The analysis of the data revealed that when neither parent smoked and
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It is imperative to bring awareness to this issue and to prevent the desire to smoke cigarettes in young teens at all costs. A school is an ideal location to offer an educational and beneficial program to all children and adolescents. It provides an opportunity to keep teenagers from starting to use tobacco and to help them avoid the difficulty of learning to quit once they are nicotine-dependent. The programs main focus should be to prevent youth from starting to use tobacco products.
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O’Byrne, Haddock, Poston, and Mid America Heart Institute (2002) investigated whether parenting style was a risk factor of smoking initiation and experimentation among adolescents and whether there was a relationship between parenting style and readiness to quit, and nicotine dependence among smokers. O’Byrne et al. (2002) defined current smokers as those who smoke regularly, experimenters as individuals who have smoked on one or two occasions, but have not smoked in the past month. Initiated smokers were considered both current smokers and individuals who smoked regularly in the past and then quit. Readiness to quit was categorized into four stages: precontemplation, for those who had no intent on quitting, contemplation, for those who may quit but not within the next 6 months, preparation, for those who will quit within the next 6 months and action, for those who will quit next month. Parenting style was measure by the Family of Origin Scale (FOS) which measured family intimacy and autonomy. This scale