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Doctors’ smoking control knowledge, attitudes and practices: a cross-sectional study conducted in Shandong Province, China
BACKGROUND: Doctors play an important role in smoking control. This study aimed to assess doctors’ smoking control knowledge, attitudes and practices to help doctors raise awareness of smoking control assistance. METHODS: This cross-sectional study recruited 1046 doctors from Shandong Province, Chin...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7792159/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33413255 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-020-10076-x |
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author | Wang, Qiang Zhang, Xueli Wang, Zengwu Feng, Shangang Li, Yang Zhang, Chuanfeng Wang, Chunping |
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description | BACKGROUND: Doctors play an important role in smoking control. This study aimed to assess doctors’ smoking control knowledge, attitudes and practices to help doctors raise awareness of smoking control assistance. METHODS: This cross-sectional study recruited 1046 doctors from Shandong Province, China, by using multistage sampling. Participants’ information was collected by questionnaire. Pearson’s χ(2) test and Fisher’s exact probability method were used to compare the distributions of categorical variables between/among groups. RESULTS: Among the participants, 14.7% were current smokers. Approximately 50.3% of participants had heard of smoking cessation drugs and 59.2% of participants thought that low-tar and low-nicotine cigarettes were as harmful to health as common cigarettes. Approximately 98.2 and 60.9% of participants agreed that smoking was related to lung cancer and male sexual dysfunction, respectively. Although 72.0% of participants believed that doctors should actively provide smoking cessation assistance, only 58.1% of participants considered that doctors should be responsible for providing smoking cessation assistance. Similarly, 85.2% of participants often asked about the smoking history of patients or their family members, while only 4.9% of participants had prescribed smoking cessation drugs for patients. Pediatricians had a higher proportion of “Agree” responses to the assessment items than doctors in other departments. CONCLUSIONS: The results showed that doctors in Shandong Province did not have sufficient knowledge of smoking control. Slightly more than half of doctors thought that providing smoking cessation assistance was their responsibility. Only a few participants had prescribed smoking cessation drugs. |
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spelling | pubmed-77921592021-01-11 Doctors’ smoking control knowledge, attitudes and practices: a cross-sectional study conducted in Shandong Province, China Wang, Qiang Zhang, Xueli Wang, Zengwu Feng, Shangang Li, Yang Zhang, Chuanfeng Wang, Chunping BMC Public Health Research Article BACKGROUND: Doctors play an important role in smoking control. This study aimed to assess doctors’ smoking control knowledge, attitudes and practices to help doctors raise awareness of smoking control assistance. METHODS: This cross-sectional study recruited 1046 doctors from Shandong Province, China, by using multistage sampling. Participants’ information was collected by questionnaire. Pearson’s χ(2) test and Fisher’s exact probability method were used to compare the distributions of categorical variables between/among groups. RESULTS: Among the participants, 14.7% were current smokers. Approximately 50.3% of participants had heard of smoking cessation drugs and 59.2% of participants thought that low-tar and low-nicotine cigarettes were as harmful to health as common cigarettes. Approximately 98.2 and 60.9% of participants agreed that smoking was related to lung cancer and male sexual dysfunction, respectively. Although 72.0% of participants believed that doctors should actively provide smoking cessation assistance, only 58.1% of participants considered that doctors should be responsible for providing smoking cessation assistance. Similarly, 85.2% of participants often asked about the smoking history of patients or their family members, while only 4.9% of participants had prescribed smoking cessation drugs for patients. Pediatricians had a higher proportion of “Agree” responses to the assessment items than doctors in other departments. CONCLUSIONS: The results showed that doctors in Shandong Province did not have sufficient knowledge of smoking control. Slightly more than half of doctors thought that providing smoking cessation assistance was their responsibility. Only a few participants had prescribed smoking cessation drugs. BioMed Central 2021-01-07 /pmc/articles/PMC7792159/ /pubmed/33413255 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-020-10076-x Text en © The Author(s) 2021 Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. 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 in a credit line to the data. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Wang, Qiang Zhang, Xueli Wang, Zengwu Feng, Shangang Li, Yang Zhang, Chuanfeng Wang, Chunping Doctors’ smoking control knowledge, attitudes and practices: a cross-sectional study conducted in Shandong Province, China |
title | Doctors’ smoking control knowledge, attitudes and practices: a cross-sectional study conducted in Shandong Province, China |
title_full | Doctors’ smoking control knowledge, attitudes and practices: a cross-sectional study conducted in Shandong Province, China |
title_fullStr | Doctors’ smoking control knowledge, attitudes and practices: a cross-sectional study conducted in Shandong Province, China |
title_full_unstemmed | Doctors’ smoking control knowledge, attitudes and practices: a cross-sectional study conducted in Shandong Province, China |
title_short | Doctors’ smoking control knowledge, attitudes and practices: a cross-sectional study conducted in Shandong Province, China |
title_sort | doctors’ smoking control knowledge, attitudes and practices: a cross-sectional study conducted in shandong province, china |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7792159/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33413255 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-020-10076-x |
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