School Smoking Policy Characteristics and Individual Perceptions of the School Tobacco Context: Are They Linked to Students' Smoking Status?

Autor/inn/en	Sabiston, Catherine M.; Lovato, Chris Y.; Ahmed, Rashid; Pullman, Allison W.; Hadd, Valerie; Campbell, H. Sharon; Nykiforuk, Candace; Brown, K. Stephen
Titel	School Smoking Policy Characteristics and Individual Perceptions of the School Tobacco Context: Are They Linked to Students' Smoking Status?
Quelle	In: Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 38 (2009) 10, S.1374-1387 (14 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0047-2891
DOI	10.1007/s10964-009-9422-z
Schlagwörter	Smoking; Grade 10; Grade 11; Educational Environment; School Policy; Student Characteristics; Student Behavior; Foreign Countries; Surveys; Student School Relationship; Addictive Behavior; Canada + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Rauchen; School year 11; 11. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 11; Lernumgebung; Pädagogische Umwelt; Schulumwelt; Schulpolitik; Student behaviour; Schülerverhalten; Ausland; Survey; Umfrage; Befragung; Schüler-Lehrer-Beziehung; Kanada
Abstract	The purpose of this study was to explore individual- and school-level policy characteristics on student smoking behavior using an ecological perspective. Participants were 24,213 (51% female) Grade 10-11 students from 81 schools in five Canadian provinces. Data were collected using student self-report surveys, written policies collected from schools, interviews with school administrators, and school property observations to assess multiple dimensions of the school tobacco policy. The multi-level modeling results revealed that the school a student attended was associated with his/her smoking behavior. Individual-level variables that were associated with student smoking included lower school connectedness, a greater number of family and friends who smoked, higher perceptions of student smoking prevalence, lower perceptions of student smoking frequency, and stronger perceptions of the school tobacco context. School-level variables associated with student smoking included weaker policy intention indicating prohibition and assistance to overcome tobacco addiction, weaker policy implementation involving strategies for enforcement, and a higher number of students smoking on school property. These findings suggest that the school environment is important to tobacco control strategies, and that various policy dimensions have unique relationships to student smoking. School tobacco policies should be part of a comprehensive approach to adolescent tobacco use. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10