Ashley Mary Jane, Victor J Charles, Brewster Joan
Ontario Tobacco Research Unit, Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Chronic Dis Can. 2007;28(1-2):20-8.
Pharmacists in Ontario, Quebec, Saskatchewan and Prince Edward Island were surveyed in 2002 regarding their professional involvement in smoking cessation. In all provinces, at least 70 percent had positive attitudes toward smoking cessation. At least 50 percent thought that pharmacists have important roles in motivating patients to quit and in most aspects of motivating, assisting and referring patients. However, in all provinces, less than 40 percent had intervened in various ways in the past year with more than one half of their patients who smoked. Advising cutting down or quitting, attempting to increase motivation to quit and suggesting the use of nicotine replacement therapy were the most often performed interventions. Consistent inter-provincial patterns of differences in attitudes, role perceptions and interventions were not found. Some differences in attitudes and role perceptions were found between pharmacists practicing in provinces either banning or not banning tobacco sales in pharmacies, but there was no difference in overall interventions. The findings provide a baseline for provincial monitoring of pharmacists' professional smoking cessation attitudes, role perceptions and interventions. They also may inform tobacco control initiatives.
2002年，安大略省、魁北克省、萨斯喀彻温省和爱德华王子岛的药剂师接受了关于他们在戒烟方面专业参与情况的调查。在所有省份，至少70%的药剂师对戒烟持积极态度。至少50%的药剂师认为药剂师在激励患者戒烟以及在激励、协助和转介患者的大多数方面发挥着重要作用。然而，在所有省份，过去一年中以各种方式对超过一半吸烟患者进行干预的药剂师不到40%。建议减少吸烟量或戒烟、试图增强戒烟动力以及建议使用尼古丁替代疗法是最常进行的干预措施。未发现各省之间在态度、角色认知和干预方面存在一致的差异模式。在禁止或不禁止在药店销售烟草的省份执业的药剂师之间，在态度和角色认知上存在一些差异，但在总体干预方面没有差异。这些研究结果为各省监测药剂师对戒烟的专业态度、角色认知和干预提供了一个基线。它们也可能为控烟举措提供参考。
