J Agric Med Community Health.  2008 Sep;33(2):243-254.

Smoking Status and the Related Factors in the Rural Elderly

• Beak DH
• Hwang BD
• Moon HJ
• Yoon HJ
• Back YD
• Lee SK

Abstract

OBJECTIVE
The purpose of this study was to examine smoking status and the relates factors in the rural elderly.
METHODS
This study was conducted with 2,421 elderly people(male 1,273 and female 1,148) residing in the selected 25 villages, and face-to-face interviews with the subjects were made from January 1 through March 30, 2002.
RESULTS
The average age of the male subjects was 72.7 and that of the female subjects 72.8. The investigation of smoking states showed that for male subjects, smokers accounted for 49.4%, nonsmokers 26.9%, and abstainers from smoking 23.7% and that for female subjects, smokers accounted for 18.3%, nonsmokers 75.4%, and abstainers from smoking 6.3%. The level of 'low ADL' was significantly higher in abstainers. In men, smoking rate had higher in alone, non-job, queerstreet, 'high ADL'. In women, smoking rate had higher in younger age, queerstreet, unhealthy, 'high ADL'.
CONCLUSIONS
The smoking rate of the elderly was relatively high, especially at abstainers. The smoking status of elderly was correlated with age, family type, job, economic status by self-assessment, Self-recognition of health status, ADL level.

Keyword

Elderly; Smoking; Health status

MeSH Terms

Activities of Daily Living
Aged
Female
Humans
Male
Self-Assessment
Smoke
Smoking
Smoke