The Change of Non-smoking Knowledge and Attitude of Intensive Course of Anti-smoking Leadership Training.
- Author:
Seon Young LEE
1
;
Kang Sook LEE
;
Hyun Woo YIM
;
Jeong Ho CHAE
;
Dae Jin KIM
;
Jong Hoo LEE
;
Jae Hee YU
;
Sook Kyoung CHOI
Author Information
1. Department of Preventive Medicine & Catholic Industrial Medical Center, Korea. leekangs@catholic.ac.kr
- Publication Type:Original Article
- Keywords:
Workplace anti-smoking;
Leadership training;
Health promotion
- MeSH:
Cognitive Therapy;
Education;
Health Promotion;
Jurisprudence;
Leadership*;
Nicotine;
Program Evaluation;
Questionnaires;
Smoke;
Smoking;
Smoking Cessation
- From:Korean Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine
2007;19(3):171-178
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
Abstract:
OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the effectiveness of an anti-smoking readership training program on the knowledge, attitude and practice in health managers and supervisors in the workplace. METHODS: We surveyed 482 health managers and supervisors in the workplace from April 2005 to September 2005. The questionnaire included whether or not a smoking cessation program was conducted in their workplace. We assessed before and after educations program about knowledge, attitude and practice for smoking cessation. The 10-hour education program included the benefit of quit smoking, the law for smoking restriction, cognitive therapy, stress management, nicotine addiction, replacement therapy, case study about workplace for anti-smoking policy and program. RESULTS: For the change in the mean scores of all items in knowledge, attitude and practice were significantly increased after the intervention. CONCLUSION: Even a short, 10-hour intervention course of anti-smoking leadership training program was effective for improving the knowledge, attitude, practice to quit smoking activity in workplace. Nevertheless, the program effectiveness would be increased by including a re-training course and website support.
