title: Tobacco prevention education in schools for the deaf: the faculty perspective.
abstract: We report results of a survey of tobacco education practices and perspectives among faculty at four Schools for the Deaf participating in the trial of a tailored tobacco prevention curriculum. Few faculty (20.4%) included tobacco use among the three most important health problems facing their students, although 88.8% considered tobacco education to be worthwhile. Despite perceived unmet needs among their students, classroom or school-wide attention to tobacco prevention was limited. Only 13.9% reported delivering tobacco programming in the prior year, most often reporting lack of deaf-friendly curriculum and materials (60.9%), time (47.8%), and training (43.5%) as barriers to program delivery. Perceptions, attitudes, and institutional issues, including lack of tailored curriculum, were seen as contributing to the limited focus on this important health problem.
authors: Division of Cancer Prevention and Control Research, School of Public Health and Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095-6900, USA. bberman@ucla.edu
authors: Barbara A
authors: BA
authors: Berman
authors: Debra S
authors: DS
authors: Guthmann
authors: Weiqing
authors: W
authors: Liu
authors: Leanne
authors: L
authors: Streja
mesh_terms: D000704:Analysis of Variance; D002140:California; D016009:Chi-Square Distribution; D003479:Curriculum; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D019986:Persons with Hearing Disabilities; D012572:School Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014029:Tobacco Use Disorder / Q000517:prevention & control*