Training family practice and internal medicine residents to counsel patients who smoke: improvement and retention of counseling skills.
This investigation builds on an earlier study by describing the final results of a training program that teaches internal medicine and family practice residents to counsel patients to stop smoking. In this study, 198 residents participated in a three-hour training program which included small group discussion and role-playing exercises. Videotaped observations of role-playing performances were used to assess behavioral outcomes related to counseling skills for 104 residents who completed pre-, immediate post-, and long-term follow-up testing. The present findings support previous results that show the training program has a significant positive effect on physician smoking cessation counseling skills. A subsample of residents continued to exhibit improved counseling skills one year after the initial educational interventions, suggesting that these skills can be retained over time.
Quirk
M
M
Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester 01655.
Ockene
J
J
Kristeller
J
J
Goldberg
R
R
Donnelly
G
G
Amick
T
T
Kalan
K
K
D003376:Counseling / Q000379:methods* / Q000592:standards; D005194:Family Practice / Q000193:education*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007388:Internal Medicine / Q000193:education*; D007396:Internship and Residency; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D008297:Male; D008404:Massachusetts; D015999:Multivariate Analysis; D015397:Program Evaluation; D000074606:Smoking Prevention; D014743:Videotape Recording