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Perceptions about the Federally Mandated Smoke-Free Housing Policy among Residents Living in Public Housing in New York City
Background: To assess residents’ attitudes towards the United States (U.S.) Department of Housing and Urban Development’s new smoke-free public housing policy, perceptions about barriers to policy implementation, and suggestions for optimizing implementation. Methods: In 2017, we conducted 10 focus...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6210957/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30241291 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph15102062 |
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author | Jiang, Nan Thorpe, Lorna Kaplan, Sue Shelley, Donna |
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description | Background: To assess residents’ attitudes towards the United States (U.S.) Department of Housing and Urban Development’s new smoke-free public housing policy, perceptions about barriers to policy implementation, and suggestions for optimizing implementation. Methods: In 2017, we conducted 10 focus groups among 91 residents (smokers and nonsmokers) living in New York City public housing. Results: Smokers and nonsmokers expressed skepticism about the public housing authority’s capacity to enforce the policy due to widespread violations of the current smoke-free policy in common areas and pervasive use of marijuana in buildings. Most believed that resident engagement in the roll-out and providing smoking cessation services was important for compliance. Resident expressed concerns about evictions and worried that other building priorities (i.e., repairs, drug use) would be ignored with the focus now on smoke-free housing. Conclusions: Resident-endorsed strategies to optimize implementation effectiveness include improving the access to cessation services, ongoing resident engagement, education and communication to address misconceptions and concerns about enforcement, and placing smoke-free homes in a larger public housing authority healthy housing agenda. |
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spelling | pubmed-62109572018-11-02 Perceptions about the Federally Mandated Smoke-Free Housing Policy among Residents Living in Public Housing in New York City Jiang, Nan Thorpe, Lorna Kaplan, Sue Shelley, Donna Int J Environ Res Public Health Article Background: To assess residents’ attitudes towards the United States (U.S.) Department of Housing and Urban Development’s new smoke-free public housing policy, perceptions about barriers to policy implementation, and suggestions for optimizing implementation. Methods: In 2017, we conducted 10 focus groups among 91 residents (smokers and nonsmokers) living in New York City public housing. Results: Smokers and nonsmokers expressed skepticism about the public housing authority’s capacity to enforce the policy due to widespread violations of the current smoke-free policy in common areas and pervasive use of marijuana in buildings. Most believed that resident engagement in the roll-out and providing smoking cessation services was important for compliance. Resident expressed concerns about evictions and worried that other building priorities (i.e., repairs, drug use) would be ignored with the focus now on smoke-free housing. Conclusions: Resident-endorsed strategies to optimize implementation effectiveness include improving the access to cessation services, ongoing resident engagement, education and communication to address misconceptions and concerns about enforcement, and placing smoke-free homes in a larger public housing authority healthy housing agenda. MDPI 2018-09-20 2018-10 /pmc/articles/PMC6210957/ /pubmed/30241291 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph15102062 Text en © 2018 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Jiang, Nan Thorpe, Lorna Kaplan, Sue Shelley, Donna Perceptions about the Federally Mandated Smoke-Free Housing Policy among Residents Living in Public Housing in New York City |
title | Perceptions about the Federally Mandated Smoke-Free Housing Policy among Residents Living in Public Housing in New York City |
title_full | Perceptions about the Federally Mandated Smoke-Free Housing Policy among Residents Living in Public Housing in New York City |
title_fullStr | Perceptions about the Federally Mandated Smoke-Free Housing Policy among Residents Living in Public Housing in New York City |
title_full_unstemmed | Perceptions about the Federally Mandated Smoke-Free Housing Policy among Residents Living in Public Housing in New York City |
title_short | Perceptions about the Federally Mandated Smoke-Free Housing Policy among Residents Living in Public Housing in New York City |
title_sort | perceptions about the federally mandated smoke-free housing policy among residents living in public housing in new york city |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6210957/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30241291 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph15102062 |
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