JOANNE BERNADETTE C.

AGUILAR BSN-4

ASSIGNMENT IN NUPC 26 RESEARCH II

Answer the following questions.

1. What is the title of your research study based on your current groupings? (3 points)
SMOKING PRACTICES AMONG SEC COLLEGE STUDENTS OF SURIGAO EDUCATION
CENTER IN SURIGAO CITY

2. What type of research design are you using? (2 points)

The researchers shall use the Descriptive Research method and uses primarily categorical and
quantitative data in the conduct of the study.

3. Who are your respondents in your study? (2 points)

The respondents of our study are only those college students who are found out to be smoking in
all programs of all year levels officially enrolled in the second semester of the academic school
year in the 2019-2020.

4. Describe the research settings of your study? (5 points)

The research shall be conducted at within the bounds of Surigao Education Center in each
department, with the approval of the College Deans of each programs.
 5. Draw and explain the research paradigm of your study. (10 points)

Profiles of the Smoking Practices among

Respondents: college students of SEC
in terms in of:
 Age
 Civil  Smoking
Status Initiation
Proposed Program
 Gender  Smokeless
of Intervention
 Ethnicity Tobacco Use
 Religion  Cigars and Pipes
 Course Use
and Year  Smoking Location
Level  Peer Behaviors
 Alcohol Use
 Stress

Figure 1. Schematic Diagram of the Study

6. What statistical tools will be used in your study? ( 3 points)

The main tool that shall be used in gathering data is the researcher-made questionnaire for the
respondents. The questionnaire for the respondents is composed of two parts:
Part I. This entails the respondent’s personal profile. Name, age, civil status, gender, ethnicity,
religion, course and year level are the contents of this part.
Part II. This entails the respondent’s possible smoking practices which include Smoking
initiation, Smokeless tobacco use, Smoking location, Cigars and Pipe use, Peer behaviors,
Alcohol use, Stress.