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SCHOOL-BASED TOBACCO CONTROL ACTIVITIES IN SLOVAKIA FROM TEACHERS’ PERSPECTIVE: CHANGE OF THE SITUATION BETWEEN 2003 AND 2013
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Introduction. Adolescents represent a key target population for primary prevention of tobacco. School-based intervention included into curricula play an important role in prevention. The article evaluates basic indicators of tobacco use in teachers and school-based interventions. Changes between 2003 and 2013 are analyzed. Material and methods. The Global School Personnel Survey (GSPS) is a school-based questionnaire survey producing a national representative sample of teachers teaching students in grades associated with the ages 13-15 years developed by World Health Organization and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, USA. In Slovakia, two surveys in 2003 and 2013 were carried out providing representative samples of 1,697 and 1,482 respondents, respectively. Results. Less than one quarter of the teachers reported current smoking (24.1% of males and 19.2% of females in 2013) and no significant changes have been found since 2003. While 64.5% of teachers reported teaching on long-term consequences of tobacco use, only 49.7% of them taught pupils ways of communication and how to avoid tobacco use. 46.9% of them have access to teaching materials about tobacco and 23.2% ever received training in prevention of tobacco use of young people. Most of indicators did not change over studied period. Conclusions. School-based tobacco control programs are not adequately employed in Slovakia. The results suggest that teachers prefer to inform about health consequences on account of social resistance training and peer-pressure resistance indicating inappropriate content of teaching. Relatively low prevalence of smoking of teachers compared to a general population should be considered positively.
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