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Tobacco-related knowledge following a comprehensive tobacco-free workplace program within behavioral health
Lorra Garey1, Clayton Neighbors1, Isabel Martinez Leal2
1The University of Houston, Department of Psychology, Houston, USA.
Objective:
Although smoking prevalence rates among behavioral health consumers is nearly five times that of the general population, evidence-based policies and practices to address tobacco use are uncommon within behavioral health settings. This study assessed changes in non-clinical, general staff and clinician tobacco-related knowledge following brief education provided as part of a comprehensive tobacco-free workplace program implementation and explored organizational moderators of pre- to post-education knowledge change.
Methods:
Fifteen behavioral health facilities, comprising hundreds of individual clinics in Texas, participated in a one (for general staff) or two (for clinicians) hour educational session.
Results:
There were large effect sizes in general staff knowledge gain within each consortium, and large effect sizes in clinician knowledge gain in all but one consortium. Knowledge of the requirements for change, perceived availability of resources, and total number of client contacts moderated general staff knowledge gain. Value in the change and total number of client contacts moderated training effectiveness among clinicians.
Conclusions:
We conclude that a brief tobacco-related education for behavioral health employees was effective in increase attendee knowledge.
Practice Implications:
Attention to organization-level factors moderating knowledge gain has the potential to guide and improve program implementation.
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