Effects of a smoke-free restaurant policy on employees’behavior of anti-smoking and its influential determinants

• Main Authors: Liu Pei-Yin, 劉珮吟
• Other Authors: Tung Chen-Yin
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2004
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/73344048893492696094

碩士 === 國立臺灣師範大學 === 衛生教育研究所 === 92 === The main purpose of this study was to investigate the implementation of smoking-restriction policies in the restaurants and also to explore the effects of different policies on employees’ behaviors of anti-smoking and its influential determinants. Totally, there were 69 restaurants, including 16 identified smoke-free restaurants, with 232 workers in Yun-lin Country in the sample. The main findings were as follows： 1.The identifiable smoke-free restaurants performed better implementation and compliance willingness to the smoke-free policy than other restaurants. 2.There was significant correlation between behaviors of anti-smoking and demographic variables, Predisposing factors, Reforcing factors, and enabling factors. 3.There were significant different effects on subjects’ behaviors of anti-smoking and its influential determinants with different smoking-restriction policies, and the workers in the identifiable smoke-free restaurants performed best behavior of anti-smoking. 4.Significant predictors included self-efficacy, support environment, smoker, awareness of ETS, and perceived benefits, the totally variance explained was 59.8% for behavior of anti-smoking. This study provides clear evidence that a smoke-free restaurant policy has been effective at increasing employees’ behaviors of anti-smoking. It’s suggested that educational campaigns targeted to workers should enhance their self-efficacy and establish a totally support environment to anti-smoking.