Project:Smoking Intervention in workplaces

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ProjectSmoking Intervention in workplaces
CollaborationSchool of Public Health, Sichuan
University Center for Asian Health,
Temple University Project time2004-2005 Objecti
veto explore effective intervention strategies
on tobacco control among workers
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Challenge

• Relationship buildingBuilding stable long-term
  relationships with factories or companies is
  prerequisite to develop and sustain smoking
  intervention. These relationships building,
  however, are facing challenge, mainly because key
  persons in the factories and companies have not
  be aware of benefits to the development of their
  industries from tobacco control
• Follow-upIntervention effects can be observed in
  three different level improved knowledge,
  negative attitudes towards smoking and ultimate
  behavior change, which is needed follow-up
  observation. In reality, long-term effect
  evaluation is very difficult to conduct, not only
  because it is money consuming, but also because
  of dropout rate will increase quickly over time.
• Quality of datait is affected by education level
  of targeted population and also by the quality of
  questionnaire.
• Data analysisindicators, especially
  comprehensive evaluation indicators are difficult
  to find and comparability between studies is
  low.
• Data communicationdata sharing between
  collaborator is not real-time, mainly through
  email, which compromise the effective of
  communication.
• Capacity buildingtechonology utilization in
  research is needed to improve

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Other interests
Intervention is effective according to three
months follow-up observation, but we are
interested in if it is still effective after 1 or
even 3 year and what kind of follow-up
interventions are needed to enhance the
effects. According to Behavior Change Theory,
behavior change track of quiting smoking includes
multi-stage. We are interested if individual
based intervention on smoking quit is applicable.
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Techonology utilization

• InterventionTraditional poster, display and
  multimedia were used.
• Data managementEXECEL spreadsheet software was
  used
• Data analysis Statistic analysis package was
  used
• Communication and collaborationInternet was
  fully used to in communication between
  collaborators and data transfer.