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Development of perceived use and use-related risks of electronic cigarettes, combustible tobacco and heated tobacco in czech adolescents
Pokorná, Vendula ; Lukavská, Kateřina (advisor) ; Vanek, Marián (referee)
In my diploma thesis, I deal with description of the prevalence of use of twelve tobacco products in the population of Prague high school students. For these tobacco products, I am also investigating the differences in their use with regard to gender and type of school. Therefore, I am looking for differences in their use between girls and boys and between students of grammar schools and secondary vocational schools. In the most widely used products - combustible tobacco, electronic cigarettes without nicotine, electronic cigarettes with nicotine and heated tobacco, I also examine differences in the intention to use them in the future between girls and boys and between students of gymnasiums and secondary vocational schools. Furthermore, I deal with one of the most important determinants of smoking - the perceived harm of tobacco products and examine how the perceived harm of combustible tobacco, electronic cigarettes and heated tobacco affects their use and the intention to use them in the future by Prague adolescents. The main goal of my thesis is to demonstrate the relationship between the perceived harm of tobacco products and their use and intention to use them in the future. The data was obtained thanks to cooperation with secondary schools in the capital city of Prague, specifically in...
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The relationship between personality traits and attitudes toward electronic cigarettes in adolescents
Pokorná, Vendula ; Lukavská, Kateřina (advisor) ; Pavlas Martanová, Veronika (referee)
BAKALÁŘSKÁ PRÁCE The attitudes of adolecents towards e-cigarettes and tobacco Abstract In my bachelor thesis I deal with the attitudes of the czech adolescents (students of the first year of the the high school) to combustible cigarettes, electronic cigarettes and heated tabacco. I was interested especially in one concrete cognitive attitude - perceived risk of all mentioned products. The perceived risk of the electronic cigarette and of the heated tabacco I compared with the perceived risk of combustible cigarettes. My goal was also to find out whether the czech adolescents know how theese products function, since when it is possible to buy them and since when it is possible to use them. I aimed for finding out different predictors of percieved risk, such as gender, type of school and the knowledge of the certain product. I was also observing the relations between the perceived risk of the electronic cigarettes, the heated tabacco and the personal characteristics according to Big 5. The data has been gained through the cooperation with high schools of the capital city of Prague. School specialists of primar prevention had a very important function in the research, because they distributed the questionnaires to students in the schools. It has turned out that the czech adolescents perceive the electronic...
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