Research Article
Smoking in Healthcare Professionals and Its Relationship with Their Attitudes Towards Smoking Cessation Techniques in Mexico
Sofía de la Cruz-Pérez, Andrea Hernández-Pérez*, Leonor García-Gomez, Jennifer Osio-Echánove, Rogelio Pérez-Padilla and Alejandra Ramírez-Venegas
National Institute of Respiratory Diseases Ismael Cosío Villegas, Department of Smoking Research in Tobacco and COPD, Mexico City
National Institute of Respiratory Diseases Ismael Cosío Villegas, Department of Smoking Research in Tobacco and COPD, Calzada de Tlalpan 4502, Col. Sección XVI, Alcaldía Tlalpan, C.P. 14080 Ciudad de México, México.
Received Date: May 14, 2021; Published Date: August 25, 2021
Abstract
Background: Almost a third of smoking population in Mexico reported having received counseling at some point in their life.
Objective: To evaluate how knowledge and attitudes towards smoking cessation techniques is affected by the prevalence of smoking and electronic cigarette use in health professionals.
Methods: An online survey among healthcare professionals (n=632) from Federal Hospitals and National Health Institutes in Mexico City with a questionnaire evaluating tobacco and electronic cigarette consumption and attitudes towards smoking cessation.
Results: 17.4% of the evaluated healthcare professionals were current smokers, 1.5% were current users of electronic cigarette. Only 23.2% of healthcare professionals reported receiving training in smoking cessation techniques and 32.2% thought that electronic cigarette is a method for smoking cessation. Smokers considered more often than non-smokers that healthcare professionals should not give brief intervention for smoking cessation (2= 15.4 p<0.01) and reported that they do not have a major role in smoking cessation (2= 11.1 p<0.01).
Conclusion: Smoking in healthcare professionals could adversely affect the probability of giving advice for smoking cessation to their patients. A considerable percentage of HP, smokers and no smokers, consider the electronic cigarette as a valid method of smoking cessation, when scientific evidence of effectiveness or long-term safety is lacking.
Keywords:Smoking; Smoking cessation; Electronic cigarette: healthcare professionals
Abbreviations:ENCODAT 2016-2017: National Survey of Drug, Alcohol and Tobacco Consumption; WHO: World Health Organization; COPD: Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease; GATS: Global Survey on Smoking in Adults; GHPSS: Global Health Professions Student Survey
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Sofía de la Cruz-Pérez, Andrea Hernández-Pérez, Leonor García-Gomez. Smoking in Healthcare Professionals and Its Relationship with Their Attitudes Towards Smoking Cessation Techniques in Mexico. 4(4): 2021. OAJAP.MS.ID.000595.