Lebanese medical students’ intention to deliver smoking cessation advice

Hoda Jradi; Mary Ellen Wewers; Phyllis P. Pirie; Philip F. Binkley; Amy K. Ferketich

doi:10.1016/j.jegh.2014.05.003

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Lebanese medical students’ intention to deliver smoking cessation advice

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Hoda Jradi^*^,jradiho@ngha.med.sa, Mary Ellen Wewers, Phyllis P. Pirie, Philip F. Binkley, Amy K. Ferketich

College of Public Health and Health Informatics, King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, National Guard Health Affairs, King Abdulaziz Medical City, P.O. Box 22490, Mail Code 2350, Riyadh 11426, Saudi Arabia

^*Corresponding author. Tel.: +966 541341144.

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Hoda Jradijradiho@ngha.med.sa

Received 25 December 2013, Revised 4 May 2014, Accepted 12 May 2014, Available Online 6 September 2014.

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Keywords: Medical students; Lebanon; Smoking cessation; Theory of Planned Behavior
Abstract: Objectives: Objectives of this study were to examine the constructs of the Theory of Planned Behavior and determine how they predict Lebanese medical students’ behavioral intention to advise patients to quit smoking.

Study design: This was a cross-sectional study conducted among 191 medical students from six medical schools in Lebanon.

Methods: The instrument contained scales that measured attitudes toward the behavior, behavioral beliefs, subjective norms, and perceived behavioral control. Psychometric properties of the scale were examined. Item to total scale score correlations were determined and linear regression was conducted to predict the intention to advise smokers to quit.

Results: Respondents had a positive, but not very high, intention to deliver smoking cessation advice. Students reported a positive attitude toward advising patients to quit cigarette smoking and a strong belief in the physician’s obligations in smoking cessation advising. The majority reported lack of time to provide smoking cessation advice, insufficient knowledge of pharmacological aids, and the lack of openness of the patient to receive the advice. The attitude scale was the only variable that yielded a significant prediction of the intended behavior.

Conclusions: The construct of attitude toward the behavior appeared to be the most predictive of the intention to deliver advice to quit smoking among Lebanese medical students. Focusing training efforts on this construct could improve the rate of delivery of brief cessation counseling.
Copyright: © 2014 Ministry of Health, Saudi Arabia. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
Open Access: This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).

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Journal: Journal of Epidemiology and Global Health
Volume-Issue: 5 - 2
Pages: 117 - 123
Publication Date: 2014/09/06
ISSN (Online): 2210-6014
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