Banu Çakir1, Ayse Tas2, Tugçe Mehlika Sanver1, Dilek Aslan1. 1. Faculty of Medicine, Department of Public Health, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey. 2. Faculty of Medicine, Department of Public Health, Adnan Menderes University, Aydin, Turkey.
Abstract
Background: Evidence suggests that advice from motivated physicians to their smoking patients is effective in promoting smoking cessation. Yet, detection rate of smokers is often low and, the proportion of smokers receiving special advice to quit varies. This study aimed to detect how frequently European physicians enquire about their patients' smoking status, and to compare and contrast how (if any) smokers benefit from physicians' enquiry and/or advice about smoking cessation. Methods: The study was based on secondary analysis of data from six European countries that conducted Global Adult Tobacco Survey, namely, Greece, Poland, Romania, Russia, Turkey and Ukraine. Results: Out of Global Adult Tobacco Survey participants who were smoking 12 months preceding the survey and had 'at least one visit to a physician' before the survey, half were asked by their physicians about their smoking status and only 37.7% got a brief advice from their physicians to quit smoking. Remarkably, 25% of current smokers did not get any advice from their physicians to quit even when the smoking status was enquired. The adjusted odds ratio was found as 1.55 (95% confidence interval=1.29-1.87) for the association between physician's enquiry about smoking status of a patient and his/her attempt to quit smoking. Conclusion: Even a simple enquiry of the physician about smoking status of a patient could be effective in smoking cessation, yet, enquiry and advice rates are still far below expected. Regardless of the reason for admission, each contact with a patient should be used as an opportunity to combat smoking-related health risks.
Background: Evidence suggests that advice from motivated physicians to their smoking patients is effective in promoting smoking cessation. Yet, detection rate of smokers is often low and, the proportion of smokers receiving special advice to quit varies. This study aimed to detect how frequently European physicians enquire about their patients' smoking status, and to compare and contrast how (if any) smokers benefit from physicians' enquiry and/or advice about smoking cessation. Methods: The study was based on secondary analysis of data from six European countries that conducted Global Adult Tobacco Survey, namely, Greece, Poland, Romania, Russia, Turkey and Ukraine. Results: Out of Global Adult Tobacco Survey participants who were smoking 12 months preceding the survey and had 'at least one visit to a physician' before the survey, half were asked by their physicians about their smoking status and only 37.7% got a brief advice from their physicians to quit smoking. Remarkably, 25% of current smokers did not get any advice from their physicians to quit even when the smoking status was enquired. The adjusted odds ratio was found as 1.55 (95% confidence interval=1.29-1.87) for the association between physician's enquiry about smoking status of a patient and his/her attempt to quit smoking. Conclusion: Even a simple enquiry of the physician about smoking status of a patient could be effective in smoking cessation, yet, enquiry and advice rates are still far below expected. Regardless of the reason for admission, each contact with a patient should be used as an opportunity to combat smoking-related health risks.
Authors: Matthias Rabel; Filip Mess; Florian M Karl; Sara Pedron; Lars Schwettmann; Annette Peters; Margit Heier; Michael Laxy Journal: Int J Environ Res Public Health Date: 2019-11-01 Impact factor: 3.390
Authors: José Manuel Iglesias Sanmartín; Ana Furio Martinez; Lourdes Clemente Jiménez; Vidal Barchilon Cohen; Cesar Minué-Lorenzo; Sara Cascon Perez-Teijon; Joan Antoni Ribera Osca; Rodrigo Cordoba Garcia; Joan Lozano Fernandez; Miguel Angel Gallardo Domenech; Maria Aranzazu Mendiguren Navascues; Emilio Salguero Chaves; Maria Luz Rodriguez Ibañez; Victoria Gueto Rubio; Susana Morena Rayo; Bruno Marioni Otero; Lucia Gorreto Lopez; Francisco Camarelles Guillem; Fernando Martin Fuente; Diego Beni Ruiz; Alicia Isabel Hernández Rodríguez; Juan De Dios Gonzalez; Carlos Martin-Cantera Journal: Tob Prev Cessat Date: 2019-03-04