EXPOSURE TO SECONDHAND SMOKE AMONG EMPLOYEES IN AUTO PART MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY, NAKHON PATHOM PROVINCE
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exposure, secondhand smoke, employee, auto parts manufacturing industryAbstract
The descriptive research aims to study exposure to secondhand smoke (SHS) and relevant factors contributing to exposure to the SHS among employees in the auto part manufacturing industry with the application of PRECEDE model as a framework for the studies. The sample group includes 200 non-smoking employees in the auto part manufacturer in Nakhon Pathom who were selected by multi-stage sampling technique. The data was collected through a questionnaire and analyzed in descriptive and chi-square statistics.
The research yielded that the male in the sample group (58.0%) had an average age of 29.40 years (S.D. = 6.74). Most of them were exposed to the SHS (54.00%). In the past month, the employees were exposed to the SHS from public places, homes and workplaces (57.40%, 44.40%, and 35.20%), respectively.The factories had the policy to prohibit smoking (97.50%) and provided a workshop on SHS to employees (55.50%). In terms of associational analysis, it was found that the enabling factors, including place leading to exposure to SHS, smoking family members, frequencies of exposure to SHS, and the reinforcing factors including support from family/colleagues, have the association to exposure to SHS of the employees with statistical significance (p<.05). The results of the studies can be used as guidelines for factories in promoting preventive behaviors and protection from SHS.
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