An Evaluation of the Impact of a Multicomponent Stop Smoking Intervention in an Irish Prison
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 15466747 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Andrea Bowe (0000-0002-1874-234X, Intel (Ireland), corresponding author), Louise Marron (0000-0002-3206-7758, Health Service Executive), John Devlin (Irish Prison Service Irish, IDA Business Park, Ballinalee Road, Longford, Ireland), John T Devlin, Paul Kavanagh (0000-0001-8576-2247, Intel (Ireland)) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 22 |
| Pages | 11981-11981 |
| Publication date | 2021-11-15 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1661-7827 • E-ISSN: 1660-4601 |
| Publisher | Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (PUBLISHER • CH) |
| DOI | 10.3390/ijerph182211981 |
| PMID | 34831737 |
| OpenAlex | W3213239103 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 18 |
The disproportionately high prevalence of tobacco use among prisoners remains an important public health issue. While Ireland has well-established legislative bans on smoking in public places, these do not apply in prisons. This study evaluates a multi-component tobacco control intervention in a medium security prison for adult males in Ireland. A stop-smoking intervention, targeting staff and prisoners, was designed, implemented, and evaluated with a before-and-after study. Analysis was conducted using McNemar's test for paired binary data, Wilcoxon signed rank test for ordinal data, and paired T-tests for continuous normal data. Pre-intervention, 44.3% ( n = 58) of the study population were current smokers, consisting of 60.7% of prisoners ( n = 51) and 15.9% of staff ( n = 7). Post-intervention, 45.1% of prisoners ( n = 23/51) and 100% of staff ( n = 7/7) who identified as current smokers pre-intervention reported abstinence from smoking. Among non-smokers, the proportion reporting being exposed to someone else's cigarette smoke while being a resident or working in the unit decreased from 69.4% ( n = 50/72) pre-intervention to 27.8% ( n = 20/72) post-intervention ( p < 0.001). This multicomponent intervention resulted in high abstinence rates, had high acceptability among both staff and prisoners, and was associated with wider health benefits across the prison setting
Criminology · Environmental health · Intervention (counseling · Irish · Prison · Psychiatry · Health disparities and outcomes · Health, psychology, and well-being · Medicine · Psychology · School Health and Nursing Education
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| Citations per year | 0,67 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2025 (3) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |