Content and Methods used to Train Tobacco Cessation Treatment Providers: An International Survey.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

There are limited existing data describing the training methods used to educate tobacco cessation treatment providers around the world.

Aims

To measure the prevalence of tobacco cessation treatment content, skills training and teaching methods reported by tobacco treatment training programs across the world.

Methods

Web-based survey in May-September 2013 among tobacco cessation training experts across six geographic regions and four World Bank income levels. Response rate was 73% (84 of 115 countries contacted).

Results

Of 104 individual programs from 84 countries, most reported teaching brief advice (78%) and one-to-one counseling (74%); telephone counseling was uncommon (33%). Overall, teaching of knowledge topics was more commonly reported than

SUBMITTER: Kruse GR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5976454 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature