Factors Affecting Retailers’ Practices on Tobacco Products Control Act of 2017 in Chiang Yuen District, Maha Sarakham Province

Abstract

This cross-sectional study aimed to study 1) knowledge, attitudes, and practices on the Tobacco Products Control Act of 2017 and 2) to find out factors affecting the practices of retailers on the Tobacco Products Control Act of 2017 in Chiang Yuen district, Maha Sarakham province. There were 220 tobacco product retailers selected using the simple random sampling. Data were collected by a questionnaires alpha coefficients of 0.85, 0.84 and 0.89 for the knowledge, attitude and practice aspects, respective and then data were analyzed by using with descriptive statistics and step-wise multiple regression analysis. The  findings revealed that:  1) among all retailers-respondents, the majority of them were female (70.50%) with a moderate level of  knowledge on the  Tobacco Products Control Act of B.E.2560 ,a good level of  attitudes toward the Tobacco Products Control Act of B.E.2560   and  a moderate level of practices on Tobacco Products Control Act of B.E.2560  and  2) the factors affecting the retailers’ practices based on Tobacco Products Control Act of B.E.2560   were the knowledge  about entrepreneurs under the Act, the attitudes toward entrepreneurs under the Act, and being female retailers. The combined of knowledge about entrepreneurs under the Act, the attitudes toward entrepreneurs under the Act, and being female retailers were capable of predicting 38.7% of retailers practices on Tobacco Products Control Act of B.E.2560 and knowledge about entrepreneurs under the Act was the most powerful as the most powerful predictive factor (B=.201,p=.002)