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Table 3 Overview of barriers to and facilitators for either change commitment or change efficacy

From: Are Danish vocational schools ready to implement “smoke-free school hours”? A qualitative study informed by the theory of organizational readiness for change

 

Change commitment

Change efficacy

Facilitators

• Health Promotion is a school role and duty

• Clear rules and responsibilities in sanctioning and enforcement

• Smoke-free norms are a part of the future (or present) work life, which students need to be prepared for

• Developing a joint understanding as a prerequisite for smoke-free school hours implementation

• Smoke-free school hours as a strategy for achieving fewer educational interruptions

• Developing skills and confidence to deal with student responses to smoke-free school hours

• Establishing alternatives to smoking communities at school

• Offering smoking cessation help or other help for students to cope with smoke-free school hours

• If smoke-free school hours is decided by law

Barriers

• Smoke-free school hours violate personal freedom

• Difficult to administer the level of sanctioning and enforcement

• Students have more important problems than smoking

• Enforcement might negatively influence student-teacher relations