Prevalence of tobacco use and perceptions of student health professionals about cessation training: results from Global Health Professions Students Survey.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Health professionals play an important role in providing advice to their patients about tobacco prevention and cessation. Health professionals who use tobacco may be deterred from providing cessation advice and counselling to their patients. We aimed to provide prevalence estimates of tobacco use among student health professionals and describe their attitudes towards tobacco cessation training.

Methods

Country-wise aggregate data from the Global Health Professions Student Survey on 'current cigarette smoking' (smoking cigarettes on 1 or more days during the past 30 days), and 'current use of tobacco products other than cigarettes' (chewing tobacco, snuff, bidis, cigars or pipes, 1 or more days during the past 30 days) were analysed. For each

SUBMITTER: Sreeramareddy CT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5988057 | biostudies-literature | 2018 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature