[A study on health-related quality of life, smoking knowledge, smoking attitude, and smoking cessation intention in male smokers].
OBJECTIVE
This study was conducted to examine the relationship among health-related quality of life, smoking knowledge, smoking attitude, and smoking cessation intention in male smokers.


METHODS
The subjects were 259 male smokers in J city. The data was collected using structured questionnaires from Nov. to Dec. of 2003. The data was analyzed by the SPSS (ver.10.0) computer program, and it included descriptive statistics, t-test, ANOVA, the Pearson correlation coefficient, and Stepwise Multiple Regression.


RESULTS
The smoking cessation intention had a significant positive correlation among health-related quality of life (r=.159), smoking knowledge (r=.161), and smoking attitude (r=.127). These variables account for 26.8% of smoking cessation intention.


CONCLUSIONS
These results suggested that the smoking cessation program to enhance the health-related quality of life, smoking knowledge, and smoking cessation intention and to increase a negative influence on smoking attitude need to be developed. Therefore, these findings give useful information for constructing a smoking cessation program in male smokers.
Kim
Myoung-Sook
MS
Department of Nursing, Semyung University, ChungBuk, Korea. mskim@semyung.ac.kr
D000328:Adult; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D033182:Intention; D007723:Korea; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011788:Quality of Life; D012907:Smoking / Q000523:psychology*; D016540:Smoking Cessation / Q000523:psychology*