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Prevalence, habits and personal attitudes towards smoking among health care professionals

BACKGROUND: Tobacco use is the second major cause of morbidity and the 4th most common health risk factor in the world. Medical professionals have a critical role in the process of smoking cessation both as advisers and behavioural models for the citizens. The aim of this study was to investigate th...

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Autores principales: Juranić, Brankica, Rakošec, Željko, Jakab, Jelena, Mikšić, Štefica, Vuletić, Suzana, Ivandić, Marul, Blažević, Ivka
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5530462/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28769993
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12995-017-0166-5
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author Juranić, Brankica
Rakošec, Željko
Jakab, Jelena
Mikšić, Štefica
Vuletić, Suzana
Ivandić, Marul
Blažević, Ivka
author_facet Juranić, Brankica
Rakošec, Željko
Jakab, Jelena
Mikšić, Štefica
Vuletić, Suzana
Ivandić, Marul
Blažević, Ivka
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description BACKGROUND: Tobacco use is the second major cause of morbidity and the 4th most common health risk factor in the world. Medical professionals have a critical role in the process of smoking cessation both as advisers and behavioural models for the citizens. The aim of this study was to investigate the prevalence of smoking among health care professionals, their smoking habits and personal attitudes toward smoking, role and the responsibility of health care professionals in the prevention of smoking. RESULTS: Out of the total number of examinees, 175 (35,1%) are active smokers, 29 (5,8%) are former smokers, and 295 (59,1%) are non-smokers. Nurses with secondary education disagree the most with the claim that passive smoking is more harmful to health (χ2 test, p = .008), also with the claim that the introduced Smoking Act is fair to smokers (χ2 test, p = .021). More nurses with secondary education disagree completely or partially that one should pay attention to smoking in the presence of non-smokers (χ2 test, p = .012). CONCLUSION: Training programs for health care workers are needed to improve their ability in smoking cessation techniques to provide active support to their patients.
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spelling pubmed-55304622017-08-02 Prevalence, habits and personal attitudes towards smoking among health care professionals Juranić, Brankica Rakošec, Željko Jakab, Jelena Mikšić, Štefica Vuletić, Suzana Ivandić, Marul Blažević, Ivka J Occup Med Toxicol Research BACKGROUND: Tobacco use is the second major cause of morbidity and the 4th most common health risk factor in the world. Medical professionals have a critical role in the process of smoking cessation both as advisers and behavioural models for the citizens. The aim of this study was to investigate the prevalence of smoking among health care professionals, their smoking habits and personal attitudes toward smoking, role and the responsibility of health care professionals in the prevention of smoking. RESULTS: Out of the total number of examinees, 175 (35,1%) are active smokers, 29 (5,8%) are former smokers, and 295 (59,1%) are non-smokers. Nurses with secondary education disagree the most with the claim that passive smoking is more harmful to health (χ2 test, p = .008), also with the claim that the introduced Smoking Act is fair to smokers (χ2 test, p = .021). More nurses with secondary education disagree completely or partially that one should pay attention to smoking in the presence of non-smokers (χ2 test, p = .012). CONCLUSION: Training programs for health care workers are needed to improve their ability in smoking cessation techniques to provide active support to their patients. BioMed Central 2017-07-26 /pmc/articles/PMC5530462/ /pubmed/28769993 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12995-017-0166-5 Text en © The Author(s). 2017 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Rakošec, Željko
Jakab, Jelena
Mikšić, Štefica
Vuletić, Suzana
Ivandić, Marul
Blažević, Ivka
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5530462/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28769993
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12995-017-0166-5
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