scholarly journals Enforcement agencies and smoke-free policy compliance: An observational study in Qingdao, China

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (April) ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Connie Hoe ◽  
Hanaa Ahsan ◽  
Xuejuan Ning ◽  
Xiaojing Wang ◽  
Dafei Li ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Observational Study ◽  
Policy Compliance ◽  
Smoke Free Policy

scholarly journals Clearing the air: improving smoke-free policy compliance at the national oncology hospital in Armenia

BMC Cancer ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Narine K Movsisyan ◽  
Varduhi Petrosyan ◽  
Arusyak Harutyunyan ◽  
Diana Petrosyan ◽  
Frances Stillman
Keyword(s):  
Policy Compliance ◽  
Smoke Free Policy

scholarly journals The Adoption, Implementation, and Impact of Smoke-Free Policies among Gaelic Athletic Association Clubs in Ireland: A Qualitative Study

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (5) ◽  
pp. 1785
Author(s):  
Christopher M. Seitz ◽  
Jennifer Lawless ◽  
Stacey Cahill ◽  
Aoife O’ Brien ◽  
Collette Coady ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Smoking Cessation ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
Process Planning ◽  
Interview Data ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Policy Compliance ◽  
Smoke Free Policy ◽  
Major Stakeholder ◽  
And Behaviors

The Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) is a major stakeholder in promoting smoke-free policies in Ireland. Several GAA clubs have adopted smoke-free policies, and there is a growing interest among other GAA clubs to also become smoke-free. As such, the purpose of this study is to explore the process of how GAA clubs adopt, implement, and enforce smoke-free policies in order to discover best practices that other clubs could replicate. Representatives from 15 smoke-free clubs were interviewed regarding how their club became smoke-free. Interview data were analyzed, in which four major themes emerged: (1) process (planning a smoke-free policy, communicating the policy to the community, providing smoking cessation resources), (2) barriers (opinions and behaviors of club members who smoke, bars connected to club houses, policy exceptions, visitors and umpires who were unaware of the policy), (3) enforcement (community-based style of enforcement, non-confrontational approach, non-enforcement), and (4) impact (observation of policy compliance and decrease in cigarette litter). The study’s findings indicate a general ease of becoming smoke-free with minimal barriers. As such, the GAA should urge each club to become smoke-free and to use the effective methods used by current smoke-free clubs for communicating and enforcing smoke-free policies.

First clinical experience with the Multi-LOC multiple stent delivery system for focal stenting in long femoro-popliteal lesions

VASA ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 46 (6) ◽  
pp. 452-461 ◽  
Author(s):  
Klaus Amendt ◽  
Ulrich Beschorner ◽  
Matthias Waliszewski ◽  
Martin Sigl ◽  
Ralf Langhoff ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Observational Study ◽  
Clinical Experience ◽  
Delivery System ◽  
Target Lesion ◽  
Lesion Length ◽  
Elastic Recoil ◽  
Delivery Device ◽  
Clinical Assessments ◽  
Balloon Catheters ◽  
Considerable Length

Abstract. Background: The purpose of this observational study is to report the six-month clinical outcomes with a new multiple stent delivery system in patients with femoro-popliteal lesions. Patients and methods: The LOCOMOTIVE study is an observational multicentre study with a primary endpoint target lesion revascularization (TLR) rate at six months. Femoro-popliteal lesions were prepared with uncoated and/or paclitaxel-coated peripheral balloon catheters. When flow limiting dissections, elastic recoil or recoil due to calcification required stenting, up to six short stents per delivery device, each 13 mm in length, were implanted. Sonographic follow-ups and clinical assessments were scheduled at six months. Results: For this first analysis, a total of 75 patients 72.9 ± 9.2 years of age were enrolled. The majority of the 176 individually treated lesions were in the superficial femoral artery (76.2 %, 134/176) whereas the rate of TASC C/D amounted to 51.1 % (90/176). The total lesion length was 14.5 ± 9.0 cm with reference vessel diameters of 5.6 ± 0.7 mm. Overall 47 ± 18 % of lesion lengths could be saved from stenting. At six months, the patency was 90.7 % (68/75) and all-cause TLR rates were 5.3 % (4/75) in the overall cohort. Conclusions: The first clinical experience at six months suggests that the MSDS strategy was safe and effective to treat femoro-popliteal lesions of considerable length (14.5 ± 9.0 cm). Almost half of the lesion length could be saved from stenting while patency was high and TLR rates were acceptably low.

Combining Defaults and Transparency Information to Increase Policy Compliance

2020 ◽  
Vol 51 (5) ◽  
pp. 354-359 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yavor Paunov ◽  
Michaela Wänke ◽  
Tobias Vogel
Keyword(s):  
Independent Effect ◽  
Online Experiment ◽  
Policy Compliance ◽  
Empirical Question ◽  
Theoretical Predictions

Abstract. Combining the strengths of defaults and transparency information is a potentially powerful way to induce policy compliance. Despite negative theoretical predictions, a recent line of research revealed that default nudges may become more effective if people are informed why they should exhibit the targeted behavior. Yet, it is an open empirical question whether the increase in compliance came from setting a default and consequently disclosing it, or the provided information was sufficient to deliver the effect on its own. Results from an online experiment indicate that both defaulting and transparency information exert a statistically independent effect on compliance, with highest compliance rates observed in the combined condition. Practical and theoretical implications are discussed.

Prospective Observational Study of Sleep and PTSD Symptoms in Patients Undergoing PTSD Treatment

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ihori Kobayashi ◽  
Brian Hall ◽  
Courtney Hout ◽  
Vanessa Springston ◽  
Patrick Palmieri
Keyword(s):  
Observational Study ◽  
Prospective Observational Study ◽  
Ptsd Symptoms ◽  
Ptsd Treatment
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