Manoharan, Anusha and Koh, Wen Ming and Selvaraj, Christine Shamala and Aziz, Najwa and Suhaili, Nazhatussima and Ismail, Noor Diana and Hamid, Dalyana and Sreeramareddy, Chandrashekhar T. (2022) An online survey on knowledge, attitude and practice among primary healthcare providers towards smoking cessation in Selangor, Malaysia. Clinical Epidemiology and Global Health, 15. ISSN 2452-0918, DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cegh.2022.101058.
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Objective: We assessed knowledge about the health effects of smoking, attitude, and intention to practice smoking cessation advice. Methods: A cross-sectional online survey was done among 524 healthcare providers in 30 primary care clinics in Selangor State, Malaysia. Association of HCPs’ smoking cessation practices with demographics, service-related and smoking-related factors were tested by Poisson regression. Results: Overall current smoking prevalence was 3.1 (95CI 1.6, 4.5), significantly higher among males (14.4 vs 0.2, p < 0.001). Knowledge score was higher (mean 10.8, SD 1.5, maximum 13) than attitude (mean 43.5, SD 13.2, maximum 65) and practice (mean 33.0, SD 9.2, maximum 45) towards smoking cessation. Practice score was associated with female sex Incidence Rate Ratio (IRR) 1.1, 95%CI 1.09, 1.2, being a nurse (IRR 1.08, 95%Cl 1.04, 1.12), knowledge (IRR 1.02, 95%CI 1.01,1.03), attitude (IRR 0.997, 95%Cl 0.99–1.00) and smoke-free homes (IRR 0.89, 95%CI 0.85,0.94). Conclusion: Involvement of female HCPs (nurses) could improve cessation practices in primary care. © 2022 The Author(s)
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Funders: | None |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Adult; Article; Controlled study; Demographics; Female; Health care personnel; Human; Incidence; Malaysia; Male; Multicenter study; Nurse; Poisson regression; Prevalence; Primary health care; Primary medical care; Selangor; Smoke; Smoking; Smoking cessation |
| Subjects: | R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Medicine > Primary Care Medicine Department |
| Depositing User: | Ms. Juhaida Abd Rahim |
| Date Deposited: | 02 Nov 2023 07:16 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Nov 2023 07:16 |
| URI: | http://eprints.um.edu.my/id/eprint/43416 |
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