Factors related to health-related quality of life among adult smokers in smoking cessation clinics
| Author(s)
Yunhee Kim
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Professor Yunhee Kim Department of Nursing, Pukyong National University, Busan, South Korea | Abstract This study was performed to investigate factors affecting health-related quality of life among adult smokers who attempted to quit smoking in Korea. The data were collected from 865 of adult smokers at 10 smoking cessation clinics of public health centers in B city in Korea and were analyzed using t-test, ANOVA and multiple regression.
Among eight domains of health- related quality of life, the significant factors of high general health (GH) were male, higher education level, none of chronic disease, good state of sleep, good state of oral health, good state of exercise. These factors accounted for 20.8% of variance in health-related quality of life in adult smokers. Factors affecting mental health (MH) were current smoking, sleep, stress management, oral health and these factors accounted for 17.7% of variance in health-related quality.
It is needed to develop and evaluate of smoking cessation program considering the characteristics of the smokers who attempt to quit smoking.
| Presenter biography Yunhee Kim
Department of Nursing, Pukyong National University, Busan, South Korea
| Source of funding: None
| Declaration of interest: None
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