Opportunities to Improve Tobacco Control for State Agency Employees

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• Alternative Title:
  J Occup Environ Med
• Personal Author:
  Kava, Christine M. ; Strait, Michelle ; Treend, Katie ; Vu, Thuy ; Hannon, Peggy A. ; Harris, Jeffrey R.
• Description:
  Objective:
  
  To explore tobacco-related knowledge and perceptions at Washington State (WA) agencies.
  
  Methods:
  
  Cross-sectional employee survey and qualitative focus groups with managers/supervisors. We produced descriptive statistics to examine differences in awareness and perceptions of tobacco-control efforts among employees and conducted a rapid thematic analysis of focus group data.
  
  Results:
  
  Of employees, only 18% with a history of tobacco use had utilized their agency’s cessation benefits. Employees who did not use tobacco and who had higher education had more favorable attitudes toward tobacco-control efforts. In the focus groups, manager/supervisors described limited tobacco cessation promotion at their agency, barriers to tobacco control implementation, and concerns about the perceived effectiveness of additional tobacco-control efforts.
  
  Conclusions:
  
  States agencies should increase promotion of tobacco control policies and programs to increase awareness and reduce disparities in tobacco use.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Cross-Sectional Studies Health Promotion Humans Tobacco Control Tobacco Use Cessation Workplace
• Keywords:
  Focus Groups Health Promotion Occupational Health Policy Making Public Health Practice Smoking Tobacco Workplace
• Source:
  J Occup Environ Med. 65(11):e710-e716
• Pubmed ID:
  37641188
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC10840754
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  U48 DP006398/DP/NCCDPHP CDC HHSUnited States/
• Volume:
  65
• Issue:
  11
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
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  urn:sha-512:f2820dfc9296392a39cffdaaf655fc847d38fbcd5bb14ee8f29d510237251ee8d0e9709f65aa2464db6055ab827ec32d4c2bbc9831940ed83b3159491d755ab4
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