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Smoke-free multiunit housing: A review of the conference abstracts, theses/dissertations and online resources


Wednesday, November 4, 2015

Michelle Kegler, DrPH, MPH, Department of Behavioral Sciences and Health Education, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA
Regine Haardörfer, PhD, MEd, MS, Department of Behavioral Sciences and Health Education, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA
Shuting Liang, MPH, School of Public Health, Center for Health Promotion and Prevention Research, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX
Julia Jordan, Behavioral Sciences and Health Education, Emory Prevention Research Center, Emory University, Atlanta, GA
Bennett McDonald, Epidemiology, Emory Prevention Research Center, Emory University, Atlanta, GA
Little research regarding intervention strategies used to engage and support multiunit housing (MUH) property owners to establish or strengthen smokefree policies can be found in the peer-reviewed literature. However, many practitioners and researchers present findings at conferences and in theses or dissertations and online resources are abundant. To summarize the scientific evidence beyond peer-reviewed journal articles, we conducted a grey literature review of conference abstracts, theses/dissertations, and smoke-free multi-unit housing program websites.

The methods complement and expand a recently published systematic review of peer-reviewed publications (Snyder et al, 2015), with similar search terms, combining smokefree and housing terms. In addition, the literature had to include some form of intervention around smoke-free MUH policies.

The key word search from 20 conferences dating 2009 to 2014 found a total of 151 abstracts and subsequently 51 eligible abstracts. Conference websites were searched for additional materials and authors of each abstract were contacted via email for additional materials such as presentations, handouts, and posters. A Proquest search yielded one eligible dissertation.

Two abstracters used an abstraction form adapted from the Guide to Community Preventive Services data abstraction form for both the dissertation and the conference abstracts.

Websites of smoke-free multi-unit housing programs as listed in the Global smoke-free MUH directory were searched to identify current smoke-free multi-unit housing efforts and their evaluations.

Preliminary results indicate that most of the work focuses on the development and feasibility of strategies and activities to promote smoke-free MUH. However, few evaluations of short-term, intermediate, or long-term outcomes are available.

Learning Areas:

Public health or related organizational policy, standards, or other guidelines

Learning Objectives:
Describe the state of the unpublished literature on development and feasibility of strategies and activities that promote smoke-free multiunit housing.

Keyword(s): Tobacco Control, Policy/Policy Development

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I am the PI on this project. I have developed the research questions and this study with my team. I have overseen all data acquisition and data analysis.
Any relevant financial relationships? No

I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.