[Situation of dissuading smoking and related factors of employees of public places]

Objective: To investigate the situation of dissuading smoking and related factors among the employees of public places.

Methods: By using a purposive sampling method, six national non-communicable disease control and prevention demonstrationareas, including Chongan, Rushan, Hanyang, Shouyang, Beibei and Huzhu District( County), were selected as the study sites from different geographic locations of eastern, central or western China, and urban or rural resident places. Staff from three public places such as medical care settings, government agencies and restaurants were interviewed through face to face. Information about demographics, situation of smoking and secondhand smoke, smoking dissuading, and smoking sings and smoking policies of the selected public places were collected. Totally 1629 qualified questionnaires were collected from staff of medical care settings( 1029), government agencies( 187) and restaurants( 413).

Results: Of all the participants, 9. 39% were current smokers, and 64. 97%reported exposed to secondhand smoke in the past 30 days. Among the 1629 participants, 75. 57% reported they would dissuade the smokers in their workplace, while 14. 30% and10. 13% of the participants indicated they would avoid the smokers or indifferent respectively. Univariate analysis showed that public place category, gender, age, education level, current smoking situation, smoking signs were statistically significantly associated with smoking dissuading( P < 0. 05), while geographic locations, place of residence, income level and knowledge score were not( P > 0. 05). Logistic regression analysis showed that compared to workers from medical care settings, workers from government agencies were less likely to dissuade( OR = 0. 212, 95% CI 0. 150 ~ 0. 301), while workers from restaurants more likely to dissuade( OR = 1. 842, 95% CI 1. 117-3. 038). Staff aged 35 years old or above more likely to dissuade( OR = 1. 474, 95% CI1. 142-1. 903). Workers of present smokers were less likely to dissuade than those of nonsmokers( OR = 0. 465, 95% CI 0. 309-0. 700). Workers of public places with smokefree policies more likely to dissuade than those from public places without( OR = 1. 649, 95% CI 1. 160-2. 344).

Conclusion: Most of the staff of public places reported they would dissuade smokers. Workers of nonsmokers, aged 35 years old or above and those from public places with smoke-free policy were positive factors to smoking dissuading.