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dc.contributor | School of Nursing | - |
dc.creator | Loke, AY | - |
dc.creator | Mak, YW | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2016-06-07T06:16:12Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2016-06-07T06:16:12Z | - |
dc.identifier.issn | 1756-0500 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10397/43409 | - |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.publisher | BioMed Central | en_US |
dc.rights | © 2015 Loke and Mak. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. | en_US |
dc.rights | The following publication Loke, A. Y., & Mak, Y. W. (2015). A community-wide school health project for the promotion of smoke-free homes public health. BMC Research Notes, 8, 724, 1-9 is available at https://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-015-1555-4 | en_US |
dc.subject | Community project | en_US |
dc.subject | School health promotion | en_US |
dc.subject | Smoke-free home | en_US |
dc.title | A community-wide school health project for the promotion of smoke-free homes public health | en_US |
dc.type | Journal/Magazine Article | en_US |
dc.identifier.epage | 9 | - |
dc.identifier.volume | 8 | - |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1186/s13104-015-1555-4 | - |
dcterms.abstract | Background: A community-wide school health project for the promotion of smoke-free homes was launched in June 2010 with the aim of promoting the benefits of smoke-free homes to all school-aged children (aged 6-18), and indirectly to their parents and family members. The 1-year project included health talks on a smoke-free life; the distribution of educational leaflets; slogan and visual art competitions; and a health fair held in June 2011. Two sets of questionnaires were developed to solicit a resolution and action from the participants regarding the establishment of a smoke-free home, and their decision to stay smoke-free. This is a paper to report on the activities of this project, the attempts to reach out to school-aged children, and their indications of agreement with, support for, and commitment to promoting smoke-free homes. Results: The project reached an estimated 12,800 school-aged children in Hong Kong. A large proportion of those received educational leaflets (69.6-88.2 %). Of those who participated in the health fair, 69.7-87.6 % agreed to promote the concept of smoke-free homes to friends and family. More primary than secondary students pledged to not take up smoking (90.8 vs 85.8 %). About 82 % of those who had experimented with smoking pledged to stop. A small proportion of them reported already having established a smoke-free policy at home (14.9 %), placed a 'No Smoking' sign at home (16.4 %), informed visitors of their smoke-free policy at home (12.9 %), and asked visitors to dispose of lit cigarettes before entering their home (15.9 %). Discussion: This community-wide school health project on the benefits of smoke-free homes reached a large number of students, and indirectly to family members, and home visitors. Public health efforts of this kind should be continued to reach younger generations and the general public. | - |
dcterms.accessRights | open access | en_US |
dcterms.bibliographicCitation | BMC research notes, 2015, v. 8, 724, p. 1-9 | - |
dcterms.isPartOf | BMC research notes | - |
dcterms.issued | 2015 | - |
dc.identifier.scopus | 2-s2.0-84958875128 | - |
dc.identifier.artn | 724 | - |
dc.identifier.rosgroupid | 2015000051 | - |
dc.description.ros | 2015-2016 > Academic research: refereed > Publication in refereed journal | - |
dc.description.oa | Version of Record | en_US |
dc.identifier.FolderNumber | OA_IR/PIRA | en_US |
dc.description.pubStatus | Published | en_US |
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