THE EFFECTS OF POTENTIAL DEVELOPMENT ON KNOWLEDGE AND COUNSELLING SKILLS ON SMOKING CESSATION TRAINING PROGRAM AMONG NURSING STUDENT LEADERS CHIANG RAI COLLEGE

Abstract

The objectives of this research article aimed to 1) Study attitude toward tobacco among nursing student leaders, and 2) Compare knowledge of tobacco among nursing student leaders before and after engaging in a potential development on knowledge and counselling skills on smoking cessation training program. Using quasi-experimental the one-group pretest - posttest design. The population included nursing students Chiang Rai College. The sample group used in this study was 30 second - year nursing students Chiang Rai College, was purposively selected. The research instruments were 1) A demographic data questionnaire. 2) A attitude toward tobacco questionnaire, the reliability of Cronbach’s alpha coefficient was equal to 0.76. 3) A knowledge of tobacco test, the index of item-objective congruence was equal to 0.86 and the reliability was equal to 0.84. And 4) A potential development on knowledge and counselling skills on smoking cessation training program. Statistics used in data analysis include the frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation, and paired t-test to compare knowledge of tobacco before and after engaging in the program. The research results found that 1) The percentage of 100.00 of the sample had attitude toward tobacco negatively, the minimum score was equal to 33 points and the maximum score was equal to 55 points ( = 43.10, S.D. = 6.12). 2) After the experiment, the sample had the average score of knowledge of tobacco in each item and overall gained more than the pre - experimental period is significantly statistic at .05 (p - value < .05 and < .001, respectively), before and after the experiment, the average score of knowledge of tobacco was equal to 16.27 and 17.73, respectively.