Abstract
Objective: To validate the selfreported smoking status of Korean university students. Methods: Subjects included 322 Korean university in Korea, who participated in an annual health screening. Data on smoking were collected through a self-reported questionnaire and urine test. The data were analyzed by the McNemar test. Results: In the consistency test for males, the results from the questionnaire and the urine test were in agreement, but for females, there was a significant difference between the results reported by the 2 tests (P=.001). Conclusions: The findings showed that Korean female university students considerably underreported their smoking behavior.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 540-549 |
| Number of pages | 10 |
| Journal | American Journal of Health Behavior |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue number | 5 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2009 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Health(social science)
- Social Psychology
- Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
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Lee, C. Y., Shin, S., Lee, H. K., & Hong, Y. M. (2009). Validation of self-report on smoking among university students in Korea. American Journal of Health Behavior, 33(5), 540-549. https://doi.org/10.5993/AJHB.33.5.7