Yahya Nurul Asyikin, Saub Roslan, Nor Mariani Md, Yusoff Noriah
Southeast Asian J Trop Med Public Health. 2017 Mar;48(2):473-84.
Dentists can offer their patients who smoke tobacco assistance with smoking cessation. We conducted this study to assess dental patient knowledge about the effects of smoking and perceptions and attitudes regarding the role of dentists in smoking cessation counselling. We conducted this study to inform tobacco cessation programs that could potentially include dentists. We conducted a cross-sectional study using a self-administered questionnaire among 375 patients. The mean age of subjects was 33.4 years; females comprised 51.5%. Participants were divided into 3 groups: those who never smoked (n = 263, 70.7%), smokers (n = 92, 24.7%), and ex-smokers (n = 17, 4.5%). Significantly more participants (p = 0.046) who never smoked (92.9%) knew smoking can cause bad breath than smokers (86.9%). Significantly more participants (p = 0.002) who never smoked (74.8%) knew smoking can cause periodontal disease than smokers (57.6%). Significantly more participants (p < 0.001) who never smoked (84.5%) knew smoking can cause oral cancer than smokers (66.7%). Significantly more participants (p < 0.001) who never smoked (86.7%) knew smoking can cause lung cancer than smokers (69.7%). Significantly more participants who never smoked (85.5%) felt dentists should be interested in the smoking status of their patients (p = 0.004) than smokers (72.6%). Significantly more participants (p = 0.08) who never smoked (69.6%) stated dentists should give smoking cessation advice than smokers/ex-smokers (59.0%). Smoker/ ex-smokers had less knowledge about the effects of smoking on oral and general health than non-smokers. Both smokers/ex-smokers and non-smokers felt dentists should provide smoking cessation advice.
牙医可以为吸烟的患者提供戒烟帮助。我们开展这项研究，以评估牙科患者对吸烟影响的了解程度，以及他们对牙医在戒烟咨询中所起作用的看法和态度。我们开展这项研究是为了给可能纳入牙医的戒烟项目提供信息。我们使用自填式问卷对375名患者进行了一项横断面研究。受试者的平均年龄为33.4岁；女性占51.5%。参与者分为三组：从不吸烟者（n = 263，70.7%）、吸烟者（n = 92，24.7%）和已戒烟者（n = 17，4.5%）。从不吸烟的参与者中知晓吸烟会导致口臭的比例（92.9%）显著高于吸烟者（86.9%）（p = 0.046）。从不吸烟的参与者中知晓吸烟会导致牙周病的比例（74.8%）显著高于吸烟者（57.6%）（p = 0.002）。从不吸烟的参与者中知晓吸烟会导致口腔癌的比例（84.5%）显著高于吸烟者（66.7%）（p < 0.001）。从不吸烟的参与者中知晓吸烟会导致肺癌的比例（86.7%）显著高于吸烟者（69.7%）（p < 0.001）。从不吸烟的参与者中认为牙医应该关心患者吸烟状况的比例（85.5%）显著高于吸烟者（72.6%）（p = 0.004）。从不吸烟的参与者中表示牙医应该提供戒烟建议的比例（69.6%）略高于吸烟者/已戒烟者（59.0%）（p = 0.08）。吸烟者/已戒烟者对吸烟对口腔和全身健康影响的了解不如非吸烟者。吸烟者/已戒烟者和非吸烟者都认为牙医应该提供戒烟建议。
