1. Impacting Multiunit Housing Managers' Beliefs About the Benefits of Adopting Smoke-Free Policies: A Pilot Investigation.
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Brett, Emma I., Leavens, Eleanor L., and Wiener, Josh I.
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HOUSING management , *EXECUTIVES' attitudes , *SMOKING in the workplace , *STATISTICAL sampling , *LIKERT scale , *HEALTH attitudes , *HEALTH promotion , *HOUSING , *HEALTH policy , *PASSIVE smoking , *PILOT projects - Abstract
Purpose: To examine the influence of providing multiunit housing (MUH) managers with a resource manual for MUH smoke-free policy implementation on manager perceptions of smoke-free policies.Design: One-group within-subject pretest-posttest design examining manager perceptions of smoke-free policies.Setting: Random sampling of MUH managers in Oklahoma.Participants: Forty-six MUH managers.Intervention: The SMOKEFREE Landlord Manual (SLM) provides information on smoke-free policies and implementation resources.Measures: Beliefs regarding implementation of smoke-free policies were measured on a Likert scale before and after receiving the manual.Analysis: A general linear model examined changes in beliefs regarding implementation of a smoke-free policy.Results: After receiving the manual, managers were more likely to agree with positive beliefs about smoke-free policies (Wilks λ = 0.59, F[18, 70] = 2.68, P < .01).Conclusion: The MUH managers endorsed more positive beliefs regarding smoke-free policies following the receipt of the SLM. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]- Published
- 2018
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