การประชุมวิชาการระดับชาติ ครั้งที่ 16
มหาวิทยาลัยราชภัฏนครปฐม

This cross-sectional analytical research aims to study the prevalence of e-cigarette smoking and compare attitudes towards e-cigarette smoking among higher education students in Surat Thani Province. The sample was higher education students in Surat Thani, and the sample size was calculated from the estimating proportion formula in the case where the population is known and was selected as a sample of 321, using the multi-stage random sampling method. The data were collected using a structured questionnaire, and the reliability score was 0.61. The descriptive statistics (%, Mean, S.D., Median, Max, Min) were used to describe the level of attitudes toward e-cigarette smoking among higher education students in Surat Thani, and an independent t-test with equal variance was used to compare scores of attitudes between e-cigarette smoking and not e-cigarette smoking students. The results showed that the prevalence of e-cigarette smoking among higher education students in Surat Thani Province was 36.14%, with most having an average attitude score in the moderate range of 59.81% (mean = 3.17±0.76, median = 3.15, min = 1, max = 5). If classified according to the smoking of e-cigarettes, it was found that the smoking group that used e-cigarettes had an average attitude score in the moderate range of 55.17% (mean = 3.27±0.80, median = 3.23, min = 1, max = 5). The group that did not smoke e-cigarettes had an average attitude score in the moderate range of 62.44% (mean = 3.12±0.72, median = 3.07, min = 1, max = 5). When comparing the attitudes towards smoking e-cigarettes of higher education students in Surat Thani, it was found that the mean attitudes of the two groups have no difference (p-value = 0.09). The mean attitude of the smoking group was between 3.12 and 3.41, while the mean attitude of the non-smoking group was between 3.02 and 3.22. A mean difference in attitude between the groups that used e-cigarettes and did not use e-cigarettes was between 0.02 and 0.32.