- Title
- Support for smoke-free vocational education settings: an exploratory survey of staff behaviours, experiences and attitudes
- Creator
- Bonevski, Billie; Paul, Christine L.; Walsh, Raoul A.; Bryant, Jamie; Lecathelinais, Christophe
- Relation
- Health Promotion Journal of Australia Vol. 22, Issue 1, p. 11-16
- Relation
- http://www.publish.csiro.au/nid/292/paper/HE11011.htm
- Publisher
- Australian Health Promotion Association
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2011
- Description
- Issue addressed: TAFE staff are likely to play a pivotal role in achieving smoke-free environments for vocational education. The aim of this survey was to explore staff experiences, behaviours and attitudes towards smoking and smoke-free policies for the TAFE setting. Method: A web-based survey that measured smoking behaviours, on-campus exposure to smoking, awareness of smoke-free policies and attitudes towards smoking and tobacco control was e-mailed to all staff at one TAFE New South Wales (NSW) institute. In total, 632 staff completed the survey. Results: Overall, 10% of staff reported to be current daily, weekly or occasional smokers. Most staff (76.2%) said that they saw someone smoking at TAFE every day and the most common location was 'outside buildings' (75.3%). A majority of staff (75.9%) said they avoided places at TAFE where they were exposed to other peoples' cigarette smoke. Only 26% said that existing smoking policies were always enforced. Non-smokers had a significantly higher (p<0.005) pro-tobacco control attitudes score mean of 4.2 (SD=1.8), compared with the mean of 2.3 (SD=1.4) for current smokers. Status as a non-smoker was the only statistically significant predictor of high pro-tobacco control attitude score. Conclusions: This study provides preliminary evidence that TAFE staff are likely to be supportive of smoke-free TAFE campuses.
- Subject
- tobacco control; tertiary education settings; attitudes; smoke free environments; smoke free policies; smoking
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1037735
- Identifier
- uon:13481
- Identifier
- ISSN:1036-1073
- Language
- eng
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