Gina R Kruse1,2,3, Nancy A Rigotti1,2,3, Martin Raw4,5, Ann McNeill5,6, Rachael Murray4,5, Hembadoon Piné-Abata4,5, Asaf Bitton2,7, Andy McEwen8,9. 1. Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. 2. Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. 3. Tobacco Research and Treatment Center, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. 4. Division of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK. 5. UK Centre for Tobacco and Alcohol Studies, London, UK. 6. King's College London, UK. 7. Division of General Medicine and Primary Care, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. 8. National Centre for Smoking Cessation and Training, London, UK. 9. Cancer Research UK Health Behaviour Research Centre, University College London, UK.
Abstract
INTRODUCTION: There are limited existing data describing the training methods used to educate tobacco cessation treatment providers around the world. AIMS: To measure the prevalence of tobacco cessation treatment content, skills training and teaching methods reported by tobacco treatment training programs across the world. METHODS: Web-based survey in May-September 2013 among tobacco cessation training experts across six geographic regions and four World Bank income levels. Response rate was 73% (84 of 115 countries contacted). RESULTS: Of 104 individual programs from 84 countries, most reported teaching brief advice (78%) and one-to-one counseling (74%); telephone counseling was uncommon (33%). Overall, teaching of knowledge topics was more commonly reported than skills training. Programs in lower income countries less often reported teaching about medications, behavioral treatments and biomarkers and less often reported skills-based training about interviewing clients, medication management, biomarker measurement, assessing client outcomes, and assisting clients with co-morbidities. Programs reported a median 15 hours of training. Face-to-face training was common (85%); online programs were rare (19%). Almost half (47%) included no learner assessment. Only 35% offered continuing education. CONCLUSION: Nearly all programs reported teaching evidence-based treatment modalities in a face-to-face format. Few programs delivered training online or offered continuing education. Skills-based training was less common among low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). There is a large unmet need for tobacco treatment training protocols which emphasize practical skills, and which are more rapidly scalable than face-to-face training in LMICs.
INTRODUCTION: There are limited existing data describing the training methods used to educate tobacco cessation treatment providers around the world. AIMS: To measure the prevalence of tobacco cessation treatment content, skills training and teaching methods reported by tobacco treatment training programs across the world. METHODS: Web-based survey in May-September 2013 among tobacco cessation training experts across six geographic regions and four World Bank income levels. Response rate was 73% (84 of 115 countries contacted). RESULTS: Of 104 individual programs from 84 countries, most reported teaching brief advice (78%) and one-to-one counseling (74%); telephone counseling was uncommon (33%). Overall, teaching of knowledge topics was more commonly reported than skills training. Programs in lower income countries less often reported teaching about medications, behavioral treatments and biomarkers and less often reported skills-based training about interviewing clients, medication management, biomarker measurement, assessing client outcomes, and assisting clients with co-morbidities. Programs reported a median 15 hours of training. Face-to-face training was common (85%); online programs were rare (19%). Almost half (47%) included no learner assessment. Only 35% offered continuing education. CONCLUSION: Nearly all programs reported teaching evidence-based treatment modalities in a face-to-face format. Few programs delivered training online or offered continuing education. Skills-based training was less common among low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). There is a large unmet need for tobacco treatment training protocols which emphasize practical skills, and which are more rapidly scalable than face-to-face training in LMICs.
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