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Frequency of Cigarette Smoking and Factors That Affect Smoking Among Personnel Employed in a Training Hospital

Turkish Thoracic Journal/Turk Toraks Dergisi, 2012

Objective: This study was initiated in order to determine the smoking frequency and the attitude to smoking of employees at the Ankara Training and Research Hospital. Material and Method: From a total of 1.912 personnel, 1.628 (85.1%) participated in the study. A face-to-face survey consisting of 17 questions was conducted. The survey participants were 59.6% women and 40.4% men. Results: The data showed that 34.4% were still smoking, 12.8% had been smoking but had quit and 52.8% had never smoked. Among men the rate of smoking was 42.1% and among women it was 29.1%. It was observed that smoking was less prevalent among physicians (26.1%) and more among attendants (60.5%). The commencement age for smoking was between 16-20 years of age in 63%. When the reasons for smoking were investigated, the most frequent answer was pretension and curiosity in 52.1%. Out of the total number of smokers, 59.1% were thinking of quitting in the future. Among the methods used, giving up smoking abruptly was the most frequent method given in 62%. Conclusion: Health personnel, and particularly physicians, are in a position of being mentors in society in preventing the health hazards of smoking and in assisting giving up smoking. Thus, it is these people who should not smoke, stop if they are smoking and make society aware of this fact.

Smoking Prevalance and the Degree of Nicotine Dependence Among Healthcare Workers at the Ataturk University Medical Facility

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Objective: In this study, we aimed to investigate smoking prevalence and the degree of nicotine dependence in our hospital healthcare workers. Materials and Methods: This study was conducted between January 2008 and June 2008 in our hospital (Medical Facility of Atatürk University). A total of 691 (370 females, 321 males) subjects were included in this study. A questionnaire, including demographic fi ndings, tobacco consumption information and the Fagerström nicotine dependence test, was distributed to healthcare workers and collected. Results: The questionnaire was answered by 691 health workers, 46.5% of whom were male, and 53.5% of whom were female. Overall, the rate of smoking was 36.9%; 48% of males and 27.6% of females were current smokers. When classifi ed according to clinic, the greatest rate of smoking was in the psychiatry clinic (60.0%), and the lowest rate of smoking was in the ear, nose and throat (ENT) Clinic (0.0%). Thirty-four percent of nurses, 18.7% of doctors, 45.5% of offi cers, and 50.4% of ancillary staff were smokers. According to education level, 50% of the cases (smokers) graduated from primary school, 45% of the cases graduated from high school and 26.9% of the cases graduated from university. The major reason for the initiation of smoking was attention-seeking behavior. The age at smoking initiation was 7 to 20 years in 83.9% of cases and 21 to 35 years in the remaining 16.1%. Thirty-fi ve percent of smokers had very low levels of dependence, while 11.9% had very high levels dependence. Ninety-two percent of cases indicated they would prefer to work at a smoke-free hospital. Ninety-fi ve percent of cases would support making this facility a smoke-free hospital. Conclusion: The smoking rate was 36.9% amongst our hospital health workers. Smoking prevalence was higher in males (48%) than females (27.6%). The greatest smoking rate was amongst ancillary staff. Ninety-fi ve percent of healthcare workers were supportive of a law requiring hospitals to be smoke-free.

Determining The Relationship Between Smoking Habits and Healthy Lifestyle Behaviors of Health Workers: Smoke-Free Hospital, Healthy Life

Eurasian Journal of Family Medicine, 2020

Aim: Using tobacco and tobacco products is an important public health issue. This study aims to determine the smoking status of hospital staff and to examine the relationship between their smoking habits and healthy lifestyle behaviors. Methods: This cross-sectional study was carried out between March and September 2018 with 387 health workers in Izzet Baysal Training and Research Hospital affiliated to Bolu Abant Izzet Baysal University. Data were collected using the Healthy Lifestyle Behaviors Scale II and the Fagerstrom Test for Nicotine Dependence, which were applied via face-to-face interview technique to health workers who accepted to participate in the study. Results: The study sample consisted of 387 health workers. Of them, 58.7% of the participants were exposed to smoking in the workplace, and 75.9% of the nonsmokers were exposed to smoking environment, which was statistically significantly high. A statistically significant difference was found between the health workers’ ...

Smoking habits, knowledge about and attitudes toward smoking among employees in health institutions in Serbia

Vojnosanitetski pregled, 2013

Background/Aim. According to the number of active smokers, Serbia occupies a high position in Europe, as well as worldwide. More than 47% of adults are smokers according to WHO data, and 33.6% according to the National Health Survey Serbia in 2006. Smoking physicians are setting a bad example to patients, they are uncritical to this habit, rarely ask patients whether they smoke and rarely advise them not to smoke. These facts contribute to the battle for reducing the number of medical workers who smoke, as well as the number of smokers among general population. The aim of the study was to determine the smoking behavior, knowledge and attitudes and cessation advice given to patients by healthcare professionals in Serbia. Methods. A stratified random cluster sample of 1,383 participants included all types of health institutions in Serbia excluding Kosovo. The self administrated questionnaire was used to collect data about smoking habits, knowledge, attitudes and cessation advice to pa...

Smoking Habits and Attitudes in Students of the Third Faculty of Medicine of Charles University in Prague

Central European Journal of Public Health, 2016

Aim: This study seeks to assess smoking habits, attitudes and intention to quit in students of the Third Faculty of Medicine of Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic. Methods: A cross-sectional survey designed to obtain information on smoking history, current smoking status, cessation attempts, and attitudes towards smoking among health professionals was conducted in 452 students of the first and last years of a 6-year Master's Study Programme (General Medicine) and a 3-year Bachelor's Study Programme (Public Health). An anonymous questionnaire was administered during the classes in the course of academic years 2011-12 and 2012-13. Results: 5.7% of the Master's Study Programme students (3.3% women and 9.0% men) and 4.8% of the Bachelor's Study Programme students reported that they are regular smokers. The share of regular smokers was almost twice as big in students of the English Curriculum of the Master's Programme (10.7%) in comparison with the students of the Czech Curriculum (4.5%), and more than twice as big in students of the last years of both study programmes (3.9% in students of the 1st year and 10.8% in students of the 6th year of the Master's Programme; 3.2% in students of the 1st year and 7.0% in students of the 3rd year of the Bachelor's Study Programme). At the time of the research, 18.9% of students of the Master's Programme and 17.1% of students of the Bachelor's Programme were occasional smokers. 5.9% of students of the Master's Programme and 19.0% of students of the Bachelor's Programme reported that they quit smoking during their studies at the medical faculty; on the contrary, 9.8% of students of the Master's Programme and 14.3% of students of the Bachelor's Programme started smoking during that time. Conclusions: Smoking in health professionals undermines their significant role in health promotion and prevention of chronic diseases in their patients. Therefore, education at the medical faculty should focus on motivation of future health professionals towards non-smoking except providing knowledge on current research and guidance on early identification and further intervention in smokers.

Analysis of the Smoking Behavior of Personnel at Major General HM Ryacudu North Lampung Regional Hospital, Indonesia in 2016

KnE Life Sciences, 2018

Smoking is a behavior that can endanger the health of individuals and have an impact on public health. Of the personnel at Major General HM Ryacudu North Lampung Regional Hospital in Indonesia 70% are smokers. This prevalence may be related to an individual’s predisposition as well as factors that enable and reinforce this behavior. The study aimed to determine which factors are associated with smoking behavior in hospital personnel. The study used a cross-sectional design and a survey to obtain data. Qualitative and quantitative methods were employed. The sample included 97 hospital personnel; data were analyzed using univariate, bivariate, and multivariate methods. The dependent variable is the smoking behavior of hospital personnel; the independent variable is the characteristics of the personnel: gender, marital status, educational status, knowledge, attitudes, motivations, exposure to advertising, access to cigarettes, legislation and the influence of friends and family members...

Smoke-free hospitals in Greece: Personnel perceptions, compliance and smoking habit

Tobacco Induced Diseases, 2009

Smoke-free environments in Greece are scarce. Despite existent legislation that forbids smoking in all health care service centers, smoking is still evident. Using a random sample of hospital personnel from a large university hospital in Greece, we evaluated their smoking habits, perceptions and compliance towards hospital smoking regulations. 57.8% of the nursing personnel and 34.5% of medical/research staff were found to be current smokers (p < 0.05). Although 66% of the staff does not oppose the complete hospital smoking ban, 95% responded that they would prefer it to be partial. The above findings warrant the necessity for nurturing efforts to reduce smoking and increase the health professionals' awareness of their position as a role model to both patients and the society.

Nurses' smoking habits

Postgraduate Medical Journal, 1973

THIS survey set out to investigate the smoking habits of a group of young women-student nurses whose smoking habits are of particular interest since they, more than anyone except the medical profession, have a formal knowledge of the potential hazards of cigarette smoking reinforced by exposure to the results.

Smoking behaviour, knowledge and attitudes among Family Medicine physicians and nurses in Bosnia and Herzegovina

BMC family practice, 2004

Smoking rates among the general population in Bosnia and Herzegovina are extremely high, and national campaigns to lower smoking rates have not yet begun. As part of future activities of the Queen's University Family Medicine Development Program in the Balkans Region, technical assistance may be provided to Bosnia and Herzegovina to develop of national tobacco control strategies. This assistance may focus on training doctors and nurses on smoking cessation strategies with a view to helping their patients to stop smoking. Given this important role that health professionals have, data is needed on smoking rates as well as on smoking behaviour among doctors and nurses in Bosnia and Herzegovina. This study therefore seeks to determine the smoking rates and behaviour of family medicine physicians and nurses in Bosnia and Herzegovina and to determine how well prepared they feel with respect to counselling their patients on smoking cessation strategies. The WHO Global Health Profession...