Assessment on the level of knowledge and compliance to the Davao City Comprehensive Anti-Smoking Ordinance among the 4th year college students of Ateneo de Davao University as basis for health promotion

Abstract

Smoking has been one of the long existing problems. Despite multiple efforts to disseminate knowledge and aggressive attempts by governments to eliminate the bad habit, the old tradition has thrived and remains favoured. The focus of the study is to determine the relationship between knowledge and compliance to the Davao City Comprehensive Anti-Smoking Ordinance among the fourth year college students of Ateneo de Davao University. The researchers used descriptive correlational and comparative method. This would help in designing a program for health promotion. Multiple statistical treatments were used in order to answer the problems proposed in the study. These include the Likert scale, frequency distribution, Pearson-r and chi-square. The researchers distributed questionnaires to the 337 respondents. Among the respondents, majority are males while the least are females. Majority of the respondents had very good knowledge most are males and some are females regarding the anti-smoking ordinance and were often complaint are males and some are females. The correlation of knowledge and compliance yielded a correlation coefficient which significant relationship. There were no significant differences on the level of knowledge and compliance observed. The researchers recommended more effective implementation and information dissemination about the ordinance together with total participation of the citizens to uphold the city's effort to have a smoke-free environment thus leading to health promotion.