RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Assessment of tobacco control advocacy behavioural capacity among students at schools of public health in China
JF Tobacco Control
JO Tob Control
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd
SP 20
OP 25
DO 10.1136/tc.2010.036590
VO 20
IS 1
A1 Tingzhong Yang
A1 Abu S Abdullah
A1 Ian R H Rockett
A1 Mu Li
A1 Yuhua Zhou
A1 Jun Ma
A1 Huaping Ji
A1 Jianzhong Zheng
A1 Yuhong Zhang
A1 Liming Wang
YR 2011
UL http://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/20/1/20.abstract
AB Objectives To evaluate student tobacco control advocacy behavioural capacity using longitudinal trace data.Methods A tobacco control advocacy curriculum was developed and implemented at schools of public health (SPH) or departments of public health in seven universities in China. Participants comprised undergraduate students studying the public health curriculum in these 13 Universities. A standardised assessment tool was used to evaluate their tobacco control advocacy behavioural capacity. Repeated measures analysis of variance, paired t tests and paired χ2 tests were used to determine differences between dependent variables across time. Multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA) and multivariate logistic regression were used to assess treatment effects between intervention and control sites.Results Respective totals of 426 students in the intervention group and 338 in the control group were available for the evaluation. Approximately 90% of respondents were aged 21 years or older and 56% were women. Findings show that the capacity building program significantly improved public health student advocacy behavioural capacity, including advocacy attitude, interest, motivation and anti-secondhand smoke behaviours. The curriculum did not impact student smoking behaviour.Conclusions This study provides sufficient evidence to support the implementation of tobacco control advocacy training at Chinese schools of public health.