Western Australian Centre for Health Promotion Research, School of Public Health, Curtin University, GPO Box U1987, Perth, WA 6845, Australia.
BMC Public Health. 2013 Aug 8;13:738. doi: 10.1186/1471-2458-13-738.
Baseline data were collected to inform the adoption, implementation and institutionalisation phases of a completely smoke free campus policy at a large Western Australian university with a diverse student and staff community.
An online survey was randomly emailed to staff and students to measure the attitudes towards and the acceptability and enforcement of the policy prior to implementation. In total, 969 respondents completed the survey.
General attitudes towards smoking were negative. While smokers, ex-smokers and non-smokers were supportive of smoke free policy on campus, 65.7% of respondents felt the campus should be completely smoke free. Respondents indicated a smoke free policy should be stringently enforced. The majority of respondents reported that they had been exposed to second-hand smoke on campus (n = 768; 79.5%).
Theory of Organisational Change provides a useful framework to support the implementation of the completely smoke free policy in the University setting. The implementation process needs to consider the broad range of issues associated with implementing a completely smoke free policy and address issues such as safety of smokers, ensuring smokers are not marginalised and ensuring a comprehensive program is implemented. These baseline findings can be used to advocate for the implementation of a comprehensive range of strategies that recognise the addictive nature of tobacco smoking and address attitude and behaviour change, environmental adaptations and effective implementation of the policy. Administration should consider smokers and non-smokers when policy is implemented.
本研究旨在为西澳一所拥有多元化学生和教职员工群体的大型高校制定全面禁烟校园政策的采用、实施和制度化阶段提供基线数据。
在实施前，我们通过在线调查向员工和学生随机发送电子邮件，以衡量他们对该政策的态度、可接受性和实施情况。共有 969 名受访者完成了调查。
总体而言，人们对吸烟的态度是消极的。虽然吸烟者、前吸烟者和不吸烟者都支持校园内实施无烟政策，但 65.7%的受访者认为校园应该完全禁烟。受访者表示，校园内应该严格执行禁烟政策。大多数受访者报告称，他们在校园内接触过二手烟（n=768；79.5%）。
组织变革理论为支持该大学全面禁烟政策的实施提供了一个有用的框架。实施过程需要考虑到实施全面禁烟政策所涉及的广泛问题，并解决吸烟者的安全问题、确保不使吸烟者边缘化以及确保实施全面计划等问题。这些基线结果可用于倡导实施一系列综合性策略，这些策略既要承认烟草成瘾的性质，又要解决态度和行为改变、环境适应以及政策的有效实施等问题。在实施政策时，管理层应同时考虑吸烟者和不吸烟者的利益。
