The Role of Peer Group and Enabling Factor towards the Act of Using E-Cigarrettes in Adolescents

Abstract

E-cigarette has now become a new phenomenon in Indonesian. But the pros and cons of the existence of a vapor at this time is still happening, various studies conducted to find out the actual content is a risk to health or not. Teenagers choose to use vapor with various underlying reasons. This study aims to determine the relationship between enabling factors and the role of peer gorups on the use of e-cigarettes in adolescents in Jember district. This research is an analytic study with a quantitative approach. Data was collected through accidental sampling on 76 adolescent vapor users in Jember, then the data were analyzed using chi-square test. The results of this study indicate that there is a relationship between enabling and the act of using e-cigarettes in adolescents and all the peer group roles which include social reinforcement, social modeling, social comparison and critics and agents of persuasion have a relationship with the use of e-cigarettes in adolescents. The role of government and related agencies is needed to collaborate with educational institutions to conduct research and community service on the impact of the use of vapor from the health side. The government can also collaborate with health workers to carry out promotive actions such as socialization targeting adolescents as an effort to increase knowledge because there are still many assumptions that vapor is safer for health.