The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of three smoking prevention programs for 7th grade students in junior high school in Nantou. The study use three kinds of intervetive approach at different groups. Group A received preventive program A (Social influences resistance approach), Group B received preventive program B (Information-Deficit approach), Group C received preventive program C (Movie media approach). 13 junior high schools, including 1149 students received preventive education and examination of pre-test and post-test. Wilcoxon signed ranks test were use to analyze the intervention effect.
The results indicated program A could promote scores of self-decision and refusal skill, but didn?t reach the significat difference. Program B not only could promote scores of Tobacco hazard knowledge and anti-smoking attitude but also reach the significant difference. Program C couldn?t promote scores of Tobacco hazard knowledge and anti-smoking attitude .
This study found the interventve effect of information-deficit approach is significantly better than the others. The health and education authorities should provide intensive propagation about smoking damage knowledge and anti-smoking law for the young students, including the jouior high schools and elementary schools. The schools select effectively educational strategy to promote the anti-smoking attitude of the students and decrease the smoking population.
