Relationship between family conditions and adolescent smoking

  Objective   To expolre the relationship between family conditions and adolescent smoking and to take practicable intervention to adolescent smokers.

  Methods   Questionnaires of relationship between smoking behaviour and family conditions were conducted among 6 994 junior high students in 22 randomly sampled public secondary schools in Wuhan.Data were analyzed by the statisic methods of Kai square for single factor and Logistic regression for multi factor analysis to explore the relationship between smoking behaviour and family conditio ns.

  Results   11 items of family conditions contributed to smoking behaviour of secondary students, especially brother and sister smoking, parent smoking and students compliance to their parents.

  Conclusion   Decreasing family related smoking factors were helpful for smoking int ervention in secondary school students.