Addressing tobacco in Australian alcohol and other drug treatment settings: a cross-sectional survey of staff attitudes and perceived barriers

Table 3 Service and staff characteristics associated with unsupportive attitudes towards smoking cessation care^a

Statement	OR	95%CIs	P
Most drug and alcohol clients who smoke are not interested in doing anything about their smoking
Smoking status (reference: ex-smoker)			0.010
Current-smoker	2.61	1.37,4.99	0.004
Neversmoker	1.71	1.00,2.90	0.049
Number of years in the AOD field (reference: 10+ years)			0.005
< 1 year	8.62	2.50,29.71	0.001
1–3 years	1.70	0.83,3.49	0.150
4–6 years	2.22	1.07,4.61	0.032
7–9 years	2.59	1.17,5.70	0.018
Increasing restrictions on smoking in this organisation would increase client aggression towards staff
Non-government managed service (reference: government managed service)	2.81	1.59,4.98	<0.001
Smoking status (reference: ex-smoker)			0.008
Current-smoker	3.03	1.50,6.12	0.002
Never smoker	1.80	0.95,3.42	0.072
Smoking is a personal choice and it is not this organisation’s role to interfere
Smoking status (reference: ex-smoker)			0.016
Current-smoker	2.95	1.41,6.18	0.004
Never smoker	1.76	0.87,3.53	0.114

^aBinary logistic regression was used to examine the staff and service characteristics associated with agreement to each of the three unsupportive attitude statements. Variables shown in the table are those that showed a significant association to each statement. Each model included service ownership, gender, age, smoking status, number of years in the AOD field

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