فهرست نشریات علمی دسترسی آزاد ایران

INTRODUCTION: Smoking is one of the leading factors of mortality in Malaysia. Most youngsters startat adolescence, fascinated by the concept of smoking. Interventions that harness the broad availabilityof mobile phones, as well as adolescents’ interest in their appearance, may be an innovative wayto advance school‑based prevention. This study aims to determine the perceptions of facial‑agingapps among secondary school students.METHODOLOGY: For this research, descriptive cross‑sectional study using simple random samplingmethod was used. Population sampling was targeted toward three government schools. The totalnumber of respondents is 383, with all of them aged between 13 and‑ 16 years of age. Legalconsiderations were taken to maintain the confidentiality of respondents. The specific objectivesare: 1. To determine the level of change of intention on smoking, 2. To know the perceived reactionsof the peer groups on the appearances of students as nonsmokers, 3. To determine whether thestudents learned new benefits of nonsmokingand, 4. To measure the impact of a facial‑aging appamong students.RESULTS: The number of respondents who smoke was 40 (10.4%), while the number of respondentswho do not smoke was 343 (89.6%). About 89% of the respondents agree that their three‑dimensionalselfie image motivates them not to smoke. In addition, 87.8% of respondents admit that the perceivedreactions of their classmates make them think that they look better as nonsmokers. After learningthe effects of smoking, about 86.4% of the respondents acknowledged that they would educatetheir peer groups. Furthermore, 85.9% of the respondents found this “Smokerface” app enjoyable.CONCLUSION: The facial‑aging intervention was effective in motivating Malaysian pupils to stayaway from tobacco use. Thus, the analysis on the study of facial app usage in smoking preventionamong youngsters concludes that most of the adolescents concur that the “Smokerface” app helpsin the prevention of smoking among youths.