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Abstract

PURPOSES: This research aimed to study the relationship between personal factors and preventive smoking behavior as well as between literacy on secondhand smoke and preventive smoking behavior of women with smoking husbands. METHODS: The purposive sample consisted of 340 women with smoking husbands. The research instrument was a questionnaire on literacy on secondhand smoke and smoking preventive behavior, which had the reliability coefficients at 0.86 and 0.92 respectively. The data were analyzed by percentage, mean, standard deviation and Pearson’s Product Moment Correlation Coefficient. RESULTS: The samples had the overall literacy on secondhand smoke at a good level, each aspect of literacy being at the good level as well. The overall secondhand preventive smoking behavior was at a medium level. Personal factors, i.e., age, occupation, and income were significantly related with secondhand preventive behavior (p. = 0.05). CONCLUSIONS: The overall literacy on secondhand smoke was not related with the secondhand smoking preventive behavior significantly (p. = 0.05). It was found that knowledge and understanding in preventing secondhand smoke and communication skills for preventing secondhand smoke were positively correlated with secondhand smoking preventive behavior significantly (p. = 0 .05).