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Table 3 Staff awareness of designated smoking areas and areas in written partial ban smoking policy documents

From: Tobacco smoking policies in Australian alcohol and other drug treatment services, agreement between staff awareness and the written policy document

 

Client smoking areas

Staff smoking areas

Location

% Perfect agreement

Kappa (95% CI)a

P value

% Perfect agreement

Kappa (95% CI)a

P value

Inside the serviceb

79.2%

  

80.8%

  

Outside the service

78.4%

  

72.8%

−0.0014

(−0.1, 0.1)

0.98

Indoor smoking areab

97.6%

  

99.2%

  

Outdoor smoking area

84.1%

  

72.2%

−0.06

(−0.11, −0.06)

0.25

Inside service vehicleb

100%

  

100%

  

On home visitb

   

98.5%

  
  1. a<0 Poor; 0–0.2 Slight; 0.21-0.4 Fair; 0.41-0.6 Moderate; 0.61-0.8 Substantial; 0.81-1 Almost Perfect
  2. bNo kappa estimate was available as all services with a written partial ban policy documented that smoking was not permitted: inside the organisation, inside service vehicles and on home visit. No services had a designated indoor smoking area. Therefore, a kappa statistic was unable to be calculated as this requires a 2×2 cross-tabulation
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