Barriers and incentives for Italian paediatricians to become smoking cessation promoters: a GARD-Italy Demonstration Project.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Paediatricians rarely devote any time to screening and treatment for parental tobacco use. The present project is part of a Global Alliance against Chronic Respiratory Diseases (GARD)-Italy Demonstration Project, aimed to increase the skills of primary care physicians and paediatricians as "promoter of smoking cessation". The aims of this study were: (I) to identify latent classes of barriers and incentives for smoking cessation counseling among paediatricians using latent class analysis (LCA); (II) to investigate risk factors for inclusion into the identified classes.

Methods

In 2018, 1,500 Italian paediatricians were invited to complete an online survey on passive smoke exposure in children. LCA was used to discover underlying response patterns, and to identify

SUBMITTER: Cilluffo G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7711406 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature