ArticleJournal of youth and adolescence2009
School smoking policy characteristics and individual perceptions of the school tobacco context: are they linked to students' smoking status?
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22 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- School policies for preventing smoking among young people.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2014Pooled it
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- Factors sustaining legitimacy of smoking in Vocational Education and Training (VET) schools: a qualitative needs assessment.BMC public health · 2024Article
- Intervention Activities Associated with the Implementation of a Comprehensive School Tobacco Policy at Danish Vocational Schools: A Repeated Cross-Sectional Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- The Association Between Smoke-Free School Policies and Adolescents' Perceived Antismoking Norms: Moderation by School Connectedness.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2020Article
- Campus Policy on Tobacco Prohibition and Tobacco Use among Youth in Sub-Saharan Africa: An Investigation Based on the Perspectives of School Personnel.Risk management and healthcare policy · 2020Article
- Associations of school tobacco policies and legislation with youth smoking: a cross-sectional study of Danish vocational high schools.BMJ open · 2019Article
- Assessing the strength of secondary school tobacco policies of schools in the COMPASS study and the association to student smoking behaviours.Canadian journal of public health = Revue canadienne de sante publique · 2019Article
- School Smoking Policies and Health Science Students' Use of Cigarettes, Shisha, and Dipping Tombak in Sudan.Frontiers in public health · 2019Article
- School Policy, Administrator Perceptions, and Student E-cigarette Use.Health behavior and policy review · 2018Article
- Visibility of smoking among school-teachers in Spain and associations with student smoking: a cross-sectional study.BMJ open · 2018Article
- Changing the Smoking Trajectory: Evaluating the Impact of School-Based Tobacco Interventions on Changes to Susceptibility to Future Smoking.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2017Article
- An analysis of global youth tobacco survey for developing a comprehensive national smoking policy in Timor-Leste.BMC public health · 2016Article
- Smoking in school-aged adolescents: design of a social network survey in six European countries.BMC research notes · 2015Article
- The long arm of adolescence: school health behavioral environments, tobacco and alcohol co-use, and the 5HTTLPR gene.Biodemography and social biology · 2014Article
- "Moving forward: a cross sectional baseline study of staff and student attitudes towards a totally smoke free university campus".BMC public health · 2013Article
- School and community predictors of smoking: a longitudinal study of Canadian high schools.American journal of public health · 2013Article
- Effect of a smoking ban and school-based prevention and control policies on adolescent smoking in Spain: a multilevel analysis.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2012Article
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Abstract
The purpose of this study was to explore individual- and school-level policy characteristics on student smoking behavior using an ecological perspective. Participants were 24,213 (51% female) Grade 10-11 students from 81 schools in five Canadian provinces. Data were collected using student self-report surveys, written policies collected from schools, interviews with school administrators, and school property observations to assess multiple dimensions of the school tobacco policy. The multi-level modeling results revealed that the school a student attended was associated with his/her smoking behavior. Individual-level variables that were associated with student smoking included lower school connectedness, a greater number of family and friends who smoked, higher perceptions of student smoking prevalence, lower perceptions of student smoking frequency, and stronger perceptions of the school tobacco context. School-level variables associated with student smoking included weaker policy intention indicating prohibition and assistance to overcome tobacco addiction, weaker policy implementation involving strategies for enforcement, and a higher number of students smoking on school property. These findings suggest that the school environment is important to tobacco control strategies, and that various policy dimensions have unique relationships to student smoking. School tobacco policies should be part of a comprehensive approach to adolescent tobacco use.
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