The investigators are designing and testing the effectiveness of an integrated tobacco control and occupational health (OH) intervention aimed at promoting tobacco cessation among workers and supporting the adoption, implementation, and enforcement of tobacco control policies in 20 manufacturing worksites in the greater Mumbai region of India.
Through 6 health education events at the worksites, blue-collar workers (who face dual health risks through their exposures to occupational hazards and their high rates of tobacco use) will gain the knowledge, skills, and social support needed to quit tobacco use. Simultaneously, management will receive OH and tobacco policy consultations to help build a healthy and safe work environment, where workers' hazardous exposures are reduced.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
6,880
Receives an integrated tobacco control and occupational health (OH) intervention (The Healthy, Safe, and Tobacco-Free Worksites program) aimed at promoting tobacco cessation among workers and supporting the adoption, implementation, and enforcement of tobacco control policies. Through six health education events at the worksites, blue-collar workers (who face dual health risks through their exposures to occupational hazards and their high rates of tobacco use) will gain the knowledge, skills, and social support needed to quit tobacco use. Simultaneously, management will receive OH and tobacco policy consultations to help build a healthy and safe work environment, where workers' hazardous exposures are reduced.
Receives abbreviated 2-month delayed intervention designed to provide employees with knowledge and skills to quit tobacco after final data collection time point, as well as one non-tobacco event in between data collection points.
Healis-Sekhsaria Institute for Public Health
Navi Mumbai, Maharshtra, India
Tobacco use cessation
Time frame: 6-month post intervention
Changes in company tobacco policy
Time frame: 6-month post intervention
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