Smoking cessation support for regular smokers in Hungarian primary care: a nationwide representative cross-sectional study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Our study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of general practitioners' (GPs') smoking cessation support (SCS).

Study design

We carried out a cross-sectional study between February and April 2016.

Setting and participant

A sample of 2904 regular smokers aged 18 years or older was selected randomly from 18 general medical practices involved in a national representative, general medical practice-based morbidity monitoring system. The GPs surveyed the selected adults and identified 708 regular smokers.

Main outcome measures

Multivariate logistic regression models have been applied to evaluate the determinants (age, gender, education, smoking-related comorbidity, smoking intensity, intention to quit smoking and nicotine dependence) of provision of GP-med

SUBMITTER: Sipos V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5829607 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature