Department of Epidemiology, Weifang Medical University, Weifang, Shandong, China.
Department of Histology and Embryology, Weifang Medical University, Weifang, Shandong, China.
BMC Public Health. 2021 Jan 7;21(1):73. doi: 10.1186/s12889-020-10076-x.
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.
This cross-sectional study recruited 1046 doctors from Shandong Province, China, by using multistage sampling. Participants' information was collected by questionnaire. Pearson's χ test and Fisher's exact probability method were used to compare the distributions of categorical variables between/among groups.
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.
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.
医生在控烟工作中扮演着重要的角色。本研究旨在评估医生的控烟知识、态度和实践，以帮助医生提高对控烟辅助的认识。
本横断面研究采用多阶段抽样方法，从中国山东省招募了 1046 名医生。通过问卷收集参与者的信息。采用 Pearson χ 检验和 Fisher 确切概率法比较组间/组内分类变量的分布。
在参与者中，14.7%为当前吸烟者。约 50.3%的参与者听说过戒烟药物，59.2%的参与者认为低焦油和低尼古丁香烟与普通香烟一样有害健康。约 98.2%和 60.9%的参与者分别认为吸烟与肺癌和男性性功能障碍有关。尽管 72.0%的参与者认为医生应该积极提供戒烟帮助，但只有 58.1%的参与者认为医生应该负责提供戒烟帮助。同样，85.2%的参与者经常询问患者或其家属的吸烟史，但只有 4.9%的参与者为患者开具了戒烟药物。与其他科室的医生相比，儿科医生对评估项目的“同意”回答比例更高。
结果表明，山东省的医生对控烟知识掌握不足。略多于一半的医生认为提供戒烟帮助是他们的责任。只有少数参与者为患者开具了戒烟药物。
