Facilitating conditions for staff's confidence to enforce school tobacco policies: qualitative analysis from seven European cities.

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Background

School staff members' consistent enforcement of school tobacco policies (STPs) is needed to decrease adolescent smoking and exposure to tobacco smoke. Staff's confidence, indicating their perceived ability to cope with students' negative responses, explains variations in staff's STPs enforcement, yet understanding of the determinants for confidence is lacking. We analyzed the conditions in which the staff feel confident in addressing students who violate STPs to support staff's enforcement.  METHODS: Data consists of 81 semi-structured interviews with the staff members from 26 secondary schools in seven European cities in Belgium, Finland, Germany, Ireland, Italy, The Netherlands, and Portugal. In every city, 3-4 staff members (senior management, teachers, supportive sta

SUBMITTER: Linnansaari A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9588223 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature