Kunkulol Rahul, Tayade Motilal C, Narwane Sandeep
Department of Pharmacology, Dr. Balasaheb Vikhe Patil Rural Medical College, Pravara Institute of Medical Sciences (DU), Loni, Tal Rahata, Dist Ahmednagar, Maharashtra, India.
Department of Physiology, Dr. Balasaheb Vikhe Patil Rural Medical College, Pravara Institute of Medical Sciences (DU), Loni, Tal Rahata, Dist Ahmednagar, Maharashtra, India.
J Family Med Prim Care. 2023 Feb;12(2):236-241. doi: 10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_1133_22. Epub 2023 Feb 28.
Tobacco addiction in the rural community is very high, where we require efforts to break this addiction. Our aim was to find out the impact of awareness program on the current status of counselling on cessation of use of tobacco by the healthcare workers in various OPDs of PRH, Loni.
All patients visiting any of the OPD of Pravara satisfying the stated inclusion and exclusion criteria were included in the study. We conducted awareness survey amongst the health care professionals on tobacco cessation counselling.
In our study, 423 patients (79.2%) were not enquired regarding tobacco use by doctor to the patients, while 111 patients (20.8%) were asked for the same. Of the 111 patients who were enquired about tobacco use, 35 patients (31.5%) were given support for tobacco cessation. Thus overall (out of 534 patients), only 6.17% received support for tobacco cessation. Of these patients, most were given verbal counselling (13, 2.43%), followed by prescription of Nicotine replacement therapy in the form of nicotine gum (8, 1.5%) and one patient (0.19%) referred to the Tobacco Cessation center. Eleven patients (2.1%) did not recall the support provided.
There is an urgent need for awareness among health care professionals in order to investigate, consult and stop smoking cessation. Our research strongly identifies an opportunity to significantly increase access to tobacco control services in rural India.
农村社区的烟草成瘾率非常高，我们需要努力戒除这种成瘾行为。我们的目的是了解宣传项目对洛尼普拉瓦拉农村医院（PRH）各个门诊部门医护人员在烟草使用戒断咨询现状方面的影响。
所有到普拉瓦拉任何一个门诊就诊且符合既定纳入和排除标准的患者都被纳入研究。我们对医护人员进行了关于烟草戒断咨询的认知调查。
在我们的研究中，423名患者（79.2%）未被医生询问过烟草使用情况，而111名患者（20.8%）被询问过。在被询问烟草使用情况的111名患者中，35名患者（31.5%）得到了戒烟支持。因此总体而言（在534名患者中），只有6.17%的患者得到了戒烟支持。在这些患者中，大多数接受了口头咨询（13名，2.43%），其次是以尼古丁口香糖形式开具的尼古丁替代疗法处方（8名，1.5%），还有一名患者（0.19%）被转介到戒烟中心。11名患者（2.1%）不记得得到过的支持。
医护人员迫切需要提高认识，以便进行调查、咨询和帮助戒烟。我们的研究有力地表明，在印度农村有机会显著增加获得烟草控制服务的途径。
