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Smoking patterns, quit behaviors, and smoking environment of workers in small manufacturing companies
Author(s) -
Pinsker Erika A.,
Hennrikus Deborah J.,
Hannan Peter J.,
Lando Harry A.,
Brosseau Lisa M.
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
american journal of industrial medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.7
H-Index - 104
eISSN - 1097-0274
pISSN - 0271-3586
DOI - 10.1002/ajim.22496
Subject(s) - medicine , smoking cessation , psychological intervention , environmental health , addiction , randomized controlled trial , psychiatry , pathology
Background This study describes smokers employed at 47 small manufacturing companies in Minnesota, USA. Methods Smokers (n = 713) participating in a group‐randomized trial completed a baseline survey on their smoking patterns, quit behaviors, smoking environment, workplace attitudes about smoking, and correlates of smoking. These characteristics were examined by job type and a latent class analysis (LCA) was performed to group workers with similar characteristics. Results Production workers had the highest prevalence of daily smoking (88% vs. 68% among managers), and addiction (61% vs. 26% among managers), and the highest mean level of perceived stress (6.4 vs. 4.9 among managers). The LCA identified three subgroups of smokers that differed in levels of barriers to cessation. Production workers were most likely to be in the group with greater barriers ( P = 0.01). Conclusions These results underscore the importance of targeting interventions to production workers and those who exhibit the greatest barriers to cessation. Am. J. Ind. Med. 58:996–1007, 2015. © 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.