Department of Respiratory Care and Graduate Institute of Nursing, Chang Gung University of Science and Technology, Chiayi 61363, Taiwan.
Department of Nursing, National Tainan Junior College of Nursing, Tainan 700, Taiwan.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2018 Feb 1;15(2):245. doi: 10.3390/ijerph15020245.
Tobacco smoking and exposure to secondhand smoke are major environmental risk factors that negatively influence health. It is recommended that tobacco product manufacturers and retailers receive empowerment counseling programs to achieve adolescent health targets. The present study conducted an empowerment counseling session to counsel tobacco product retailers in refusing to sell tobacco products to minors. The three stages of this study were conducted from March 2015 to February 2017. The results revealed that 74% of retailers were selling tobacco products to minors at baseline, 40% at stage two and 15% at stage three. These represent significant reductions in selling tobacco products to minors (all stage differences < 0.001). However, experimental design studies could be used to examine the empowerment counseling program for preventing tobacco sales to minors in the future. Moreover, health care providers should collaborate with tobacco product retailers to design unique empowerment counseling sessions for specific regions to improve retailers' capabilities for self-management in terms of tobacco hazard prevention.
吸烟和接触二手烟是影响健康的主要环境风险因素。建议烟草制品制造商和零售商接受赋权咨询方案,以实现青少年健康目标。本研究开展了一项赋权咨询会议,以劝导烟草制品零售商拒绝向未成年人出售烟草制品。本研究分三个阶段进行,时间为 2015 年 3 月至 2017 年 2 月。结果显示,基线时有 74%的零售商向未成年人出售烟草制品,第二阶段有 40%,第三阶段有 15%。这表明向未成年人出售烟草制品的情况显著减少(所有阶段差异均<0.001)。然而,未来可以使用实验设计研究来检验赋权咨询方案在防止向未成年人销售烟草方面的效果。此外,卫生保健提供者应与烟草制品零售商合作,为特定地区设计独特的赋权咨询会议,以提高零售商在预防烟草危害方面的自我管理能力。