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Smoking cessation
with young people: the real world
Do young smokers want to stop?
Gill M Grimshaw, Alan Stanton, Stephen Joseph and Naumana
Amjad
Powerpoint
Presentation
Abstract
Our local research has shown us that young people consider
that they understand how to quit smoking and that they
consider that they have absorbed the educational messages
we give them about the risks of smoking. Some stated that
continual reference to their smoking acted to produce
a generalised aversion to health services. Nevertheless,
some young people do want to quit and therefore we have
been experimenting with a tool that would test motivation
to quit smoking for young people based on their strongly
expressed need for autonomy. Research shows that quitting
is more likely for those who are autonomous.
Two studies were undertaken to develop a short, self-report
scale to assess motivation to quit. An initial questionnaire
based on 29 items was developed to try and assess the
constructs of autonomous and controlled regulation within
our population of young people. This was initially piloted
on 50 young people and following further development a
full scale of 30 items, including check items, was tested
on a further 198 young people. Principal component analysis
of the results suggests evidence for a two component structure,
reflecting the two facets of regulation, autonomous and
controlled.
A revised, 12 item questionnaire has been developed. The
use of this questionnaire in our population will be discussed.
Gill M Grimshaw, Alan Stanton, Stephen Joseph and Naumana
Amjad
Medical Teaching Centre, Warwick Medical School,
University of Warwick
gill.grimshaw@warwick.ac.uk
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