Development of a social will for tobacco control index
James H Price1, Joseph A Dake, Timothy R Jordan
1Department of Public Health, University of Toledo, Toledo, OH 43606, USA. jprice@utnet.utoledo.edu
Objective:
To design a valid and reliable questionnaire to assess community support for controlling tobacco.
Methods:
Four samples were obtained to test the psychometric properties of the Social Will for Tobacco Control Instrument.
Results:
Principal components analysis found 2 factors accounted for 42.8% (personal support) and 9.7% (agency support) of the variance, respectively. Sensitivity was 93.7%, specificity was 90.6%, and validity was 92.3%. The instrument predicted, within 1%, the actual vote regarding a local clean indoor air ordinance. Stability reliability was .84 and .77 respectively for the 2 factors.
Conclusion:
The SWTCI can help policy makers predict whether communities are supportive of clean indoor air ordinances.
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