Hubungan Tingkat Pengetahuan dan Sikap terhadap Perilaku Merokok pada Mahasiswa Fakultas Kedokteran Universitas Sumatera Utara Angkatan 2019 – 2021

Abstract

Background. Smoking behavior is a problem related to public health because it can cause various diseases and even cause death for both smokers and those around them. Even though everyone knows that smoking is harmful to health, in reality smoking behavior is still rigorous to control. Aim. To find out the correlation between knowledge and behavior with level of dependence on smoking behavior in students of the Faculty of Medicine, University of North Sumatra class of 2019-2021. Methods. This research is analytical with a cross sectional study. Results. It was found that 16 of the active smokers, 4 of them were categorized as heavy smokers, this is erroneous considering that medical students are pioneers of healthy living and later will become someone who educates others to live a healthy life. The results using the Fisher exact test on knowledge with active smoking behavior showed that exact sig(2-sided) value of 0.569. The results using the Fisher exact test on behavior with active smoking behavior showed that exact sig(2-sided) value of 0.262. The results using the Fisher exact test on knowledge with inactive smoking behavior showed that exact sig(2-sided) value of 0.074. The results using the Fisher exact test on behavior with inactive smoking behavior showed that exact sig(2-sided) value of 0.421. Conclusions. There is no correlation between knowledge and behavior with level of dependency on smoking behavior in students of the Faculty of Medicine, University of North Sumatra class of 2019-2021.