Prevalence of tobacco use in healthcare workers: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To estimate tobacco use prevalence in healthcare workers (HCW) by country income level, occupation and sex, and compare the estimates with the prevalence in the general population.

Methods

We systematically searched five databases; Medline, EMBASE, CINHAL Plus, CAB Abstracts, and LILACS for original studies published between 2000 and March 2016 without language restriction. All primary studies that reported tobacco use in any category of HCW were included. Study extraction and quality assessment were conducted independently by three reviewers, using a standardised data extraction and quality appraisal form. We performed random effect meta-analyses to obtain prevalence estimates by World Bank (WB) country income level, sex, and occupation. Data on prevalence of tob

SUBMITTER: Nilan K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6657871 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature