Resilience as a protective factor for secondary school students against tobacco use

Autor: José Ramón Martínez-Pérez, Yinet Labrada-Barrera, Lourdes Leonor Bermudez-Cordoví, Yunelsy Ortiz-Cabrera, Elmer Hector Pérez-Leyva
Jazyk: Spanish; Castilian
Rok vydání: 2024
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Zdroj: Revista Electrónica Dr. Zoilo E. Marinello Vidaurreta, Vol 49, Iss 1, Pp e3670-e3670 (2024)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1029-3027
Popis: Background: resilience is a social skill with great involvement in the prevention and reduction of smoking behavior. Objective: to determine the effect of resilience on tobacco consumption in students of the “Paco Cabrera” Secondary School from Puerto Padre, Las Tunas, in May 2023. Methods: a cross-sectional, analytical observational study was carried out on 257 students in secondary education, time and with the objective stated. The information was collected from a questionnaire and the 14 items Resilience Scale. Descriptive and inferential statistics were used in the statistical analysis. Results: smoking students were 14 years old (41.51 %), male (64.15 %) and ninth grade (45.28 %); 11.32 % of smokers had low or very low resilience (X2=30.309; p=0.0000). The overall resilience score for student smokers was 11.22 lower than for nonsmokers (w=2172.0; p=0.0000). The items of both subscales were statistically higher in the group of non-smokers (p
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