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ArticleTobacco induced diseases2022

Awareness of tobacco control policies and anti-tobacco attitudes and behaviors among school personnel.

Yin-Liang Tan, Zi-Yue Chen, Ya-Ping He, Gang Xu, Zhi-Ping Yu, Jing-Fen Zhu

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Yin-Liang TanSchool of Public Health, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China.
Zi-Yue ChenSchool of Public Health, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China.
Ya-Ping HeSchool of Public Health, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China.
Gang XuSchool of Public Health, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China.
Zhi-Ping YuDepartment of Nutrition and Dietetics, University of North Florida, Jacksonville, United States.
Jing-Fen ZhuSchool of Public Health, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China.

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introductionAdolescent smoking is a serious public health concern, and the role of personnel in reducing students'tobacco use has been proven. Anti-tobacco policies are strong factors for tobacco control but most are newly implemented in China. This study aimed to examine the awareness of anti-tobacco policies among school personnel in a southern city of China, and assess its influence on personnel's anti-tobacco attitudes and behaviors towards students.

methodsAn online cross-sectional study was conducted between September 2017 and January 2018 in schools of Shanghai, China. A total of 3194 subjects from 33 schools were selected by a two-stage stratified cluster randomized sampling design. Prevalence of anti-tobacco policy awareness is presented. Crude (ORs) and adjusted odds ratios (AORs) and their 95% confidence intervals (CIs) were estimated to assess the association between policy awareness and anti-tobacco attitudes or behaviors.

resultsIn all, 22.4% of surveyed participants knew four or five polices presented in the survey and 13.0% of personnel knew none of these policies. Most of the participants fully support prohibiting indoor (94.6%) and outdoor (86.3%) smoking in public places, bans on tobacco advertising (90.9%), and printing warning pictures on cigarette boxes (89.5%). Less than half of the personnel had taken action to stop students from smoking (45.7%), encourage students to quit smoking (42.4%) or participated in relevant educational activities held by schools (37.4%) in the previous year. The school personnel's anti-tobacco attitudes (AOR=1.28; 95% CI: 1.21-1.36) and behaviors (AOR=1.10; 95% CI: 1.03-1.17) were strengthened with increasing level of policy awareness.

conclusionsThe involvement of school personnel can be an important part of intervention to improve anti-tobacco campaigns on campus. The study calls for the implementation of projects or activities to improve anti-tobacco policy awareness in the school environment as part of school tobacco control strategy.

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adolescent healthschool healthschool personnelsmoke-free policysmoking reduction

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