Comparisons of Attitudes of Smoking and Nonsmoking Teachers toward Smoking Education in Schools and the Health Consequences of Smoking

Cw, Higgins; Dunn, James D.; D, Warmack

doi:10.1080/00970050.1983.10614362

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“…That smokers and non-smokers differed, not so much in the extent of their knowledge, but rather in the interpretation they placed on it was also suggested by their consistently less positive responses on the questionnaire to the statements which sought their opinion of smoking as a health issue. This was true within both occupational groups, and in this they reflected the situation found in the general population (Marsh & Matheson 1983), among other trainee nurses and teachers (Neil et al 1980) and among the professions to which they aspired (Higgins et al 1983, Chen & Rakip 1975, Koski et al 1978, Spencer 1982. Although entrants to nursing were in general less positive in their assessment than entrants to teaching, the regression analysis suggested the underlying factor was not occupational in character but related in part to the differences in the smoking behaviour of the two groups.…”

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“…Another complicating factor is the interaction between personal smoking behaviour and views about smoking as a health issue. Smokers, both in professional groups and among the public at large, tend to be less willing to acknowledge the possible hazards (Marsh & Matheson 1983, Higgins et al 1983, Spencer 1982, although again contrary evidence is available (Hillier 1973, McGuffin 1982. Neil et al (1980) found that the attitudes of student nurses and student teachers to smoking were more related to their smoking behaviour than their professional orientation.…”

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The effect of training on knowledge and opinion about smoking amongst nurses and student teachers

Elkind

1988

Journal of Advanced Nursing

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At their entry to training, student teachers and nurses (pupils, general students and paediatric students) completed a questionnaire and were interviewed about their knowledge and opinion of smoking as a health hazard. This was repeated a year later. The nurses and student teachers did not differ in their knowledge of eight smoking-related diseases at their entry to training, but the nurses were less willing to acknowledge the importance of smoking as a health problem. This was in part related to differences in their smoking behaviour, smokers being less likely to perceive smoking as a hazard than non-smokers. Smokers were also more likely to express doubts about the role of smoking in illness. In general at entry the pupil nurses were the least likely to accept that smoking is harmful to health. After a year of training little change was evident among the student teachers. Among the nurses knowledge had improved for some conditions and decreased for others. Improved knowledge was most evident among the general students but scores declined consistently among the pupils. The uptake of knowledge was also related to the nurses' smoking behaviour, non-smokers tending to become better informed and smokers less certain. In general, the nurses had also become less likely to acknowledge the importance of smoking as a health issue, and again, this was most marked among the pupils. Smoking behaviour did not account for these changes. The nurses applied their training experience to their views, the effect usually being to confirm existing ideas. Not all experience had a positive impact and training had not enhanced understanding of the causal relationship between smoking and illness. One explanation could lie in the way the subject of smoking is dealt with during teaching.

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The effect of training on knowledge and opinion about smoking amongst nurses and student teachers

Elkind

1988

Journal of Advanced Nursing

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“…The literature available on teacher’s health behaviors is scarce and inconsistent. For example, some studies on tobacco use have found a lower smoking prevalence in teachers compared to the general population [ 6 , 12 – 14 ], whereas other studies did not [ 15 , 16 ]. Overall, indicators of health behaviors that have been considered were inconsistently defined across studies and comparison groups have been heterogeneous.…”

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Health Behaviors: Is There Any Distinction for Teachers? A Cross-Sectional Nationwide Study

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BackgroundHealth behaviors, as important modifiable determinants of health, are consistently targeted by prevention messages. Teachers, as educators and role models, may play a key-role in bringing such messages to children and adolescents. It is not clear which areas of prevention could be improved in collaboration with teachers to promote healthy behaviors at the population level through health education in schools.Methodsto evaluate teacher’s health awareness, we compared their health/risk behaviors to those of non-teachers, taking into account demographic and socioeconomic factors that could confound crude differences. We used data from the 2010 Health Barometer, a cross-sectional nationally-representative French survey conducted by telephone among 27,653 persons aged 15–85. Adjusting sequentially for potential confounders, we compared six indicators of lifestyle and risky conducts (at-risk drinking, current smoking, cannabis use, gambling, corpulence, sleep duration) between teachers (n = 725) and two comparison groups: other occupations (n = 12,483) on the one hand, and other intermediate and managerial/professional occupations (n = 6,026) on the other.ResultsIn the fully-adjusted models, teachers were less likely than other occupations to smoke, to have used cannabis in the last 12 months, to gamble regularly and to be overweight or obese. When restricting the comparison group to other occupations belonging to the same socio-professional category, differences were attenuated, but remain highly significant for tobacco, cannabis and gambling. No significant differences were observed between teachers and non-teachers regarding alcohol use and sleep duration, once important confounders had been adjusted for.ConclusionsOur results suggest that teachers behave on the whole more healthily than other adults with a similar demographic and socioeconomic profile. The absence of a teacher distinction toward at-risk drinking needs to be examined in more detail.

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Teachers’ evaluations of a ‘life‐skills’ approach to drugs education

Eiser

Böcker

1988

Educational Research

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Comparisons of Attitudes of Smoking and Nonsmoking Teachers toward Smoking Education in Schools and the Health Consequences of Smoking

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The effect of training on knowledge and opinion about smoking amongst nurses and student teachers

The effect of training on knowledge and opinion about smoking amongst nurses and student teachers

Health Behaviors: Is There Any Distinction for Teachers? A Cross-Sectional Nationwide Study

Teachers’ evaluations of a ‘life‐skills’ approach to drugs education

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