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Due date 11/20/2020

Discussion

Within your community, there has been a large increase in teenage smoking, and community leaders are developing a plan to decrease the incidence of smoking. To help them, you will:

A) Develop a research question to address the problem. B) Determine what kind of study should be undertaken. C) Design a study to decrease the incidence of smoking in teenagers.

Reply 1 Ayrin

There are 3 forms of study; cohort study, control study and qualitative study. The most efficient form of study, in this case, to be used will be a cohort study. A cohort study is a longitudinal study which usually studies a group of individuals who share one thing in common and defining characteristics.

Most importantly is we already have the cohort population, in this case being the teenage smokers in the community. Secondly, we have our baseline data being the smoking habit which every teenager is adapting at an increasing rate. Also, at our disposal, we have the unexposed control cohort which is the group of teenagers that haven’t yet started smoking and therefore they will act as our comparison group in this study.

After the above classification, a field study would come in handy. At this point, interviews will be conducted or maybe the distribution of questionnaires in order to gain information and also data on smoking teenagers (Chassin et al., 2018). Information and data gained from the questionnaires and interviews will provide answers to most of the questions i.e. why most of the teenagers are starting smoking as a habit, where they get their supplies from, who are encouraging the habit of smoking in the community, why most of them started smoking etcetera. 

The data achieved will then be analyzed by the elders of the community and from the analysis, they will be able to determine what precautions they should put into measures and steps that they should use to approach the matter and be able to curb the increasing population of smoking teenagers and also reduce the numbers.

Reply 2 Kayla

I would like to design a questionnaire, "the risk of smoking in teenagers." So, verifying know-how and mind-set about teenage smoking habits in the survey schools such as a brand of cigarette, attitudes toward smoking and smokers, social and instructional elements and family history, etc. I will provide a questionnaire associated with the teenager's behavior to assess understanding associated with smoking: how many cigarettes a day do you smoke? What triggers you to choose a cigarette, and how frequently do you smoke? Do you broadly speak about smoking by myself or by the group? Why? How do you accumulate your cigarettes? Does anyone specifically promote, or do you purchase them from a historic pal or siblings? Do you consider yourself addicted to nicotine, and if you ever layout on quitting? as a teen, do you assume you had a wholesome lifestyle? Do you suppose you obtained enough facts about smoking and its risks? I will plan a qualitative study to find teenagers' opinions on smoking decision factors focusing on smoking cessation. I will organize it as a center of group discussion, personal interviews, participation, and observation.  Health care professionals have key responsibilities in preventing tobacco use among youth and their families and need to know more about effective smoking prevention and cessation strategies(Canadian Paediatric Society, 2016). There is a need to know more about effective smoking prevention and anti-smoking strategies, so schools should provide more education and motivation, and management programs for teenagers addicted to smoking.