title: [Attitude to tobacco and prevalence of smokers among primary care physicians in Guipúzcoa].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To discover the evolvement of Primary Care doctors' tobacco consumption in Guipuzcoa and their attitudes to tobacco dependency.
  
  
  METHODS
  A descriptive study of a crossover type. October 1992.
  
  
  METHODS
  Primary Health care.
  
  
  METHODS
  381 general physicians and paediatricians from Guipuzcoa province.
  
  
  RESULTS
  A self-filled questionnaire was distributed at Health Centres for subsequent return by mail. The reply rate was 60.89%, 42.3% were smokers; 33.6%, ex-smokers. 43% of smokers smoked in the Centre; 2% in front of patients. We found significant differences (p < 0.05) with a study carried out in 1988, where doctors who smoked were 52.4%, ex-smokers 19% and doctors who smoked in front of patients, 18.2%. 45.7% of women smoked, 39.2% of men. 78% of the doctors under study stated that they questioned patients about tobacco consumption. 95.2% did so when patients had specific pathologies.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  There has been a significant decline in tobacco smoking by doctors in Guipuzcoa. There are more women than men smokers. There is a higher proportion of ex-smokers among doctors than in the population as a whole. There has been a positive change of attitude as to smoking in front of patients. Centres should become more involved in the struggle against tobacco by offering to set up dependency counselling groups.
authors: Unidad Docente de Medicina Familiar y Comunitaria, Centro de Salud Andoain, Guipúzcoa.
authors: E
authors: E
authors: Sampedro Martínez
authors: M A
authors: MA
authors: Narzabal Goñi
authors: O
authors: O
authors: Frías Oyaga
authors: E
authors: E
authors: Antero Berganzos
authors: M
authors: M
authors: Sáez Salazar
authors: M C
authors: MC
authors: Aranegui Lasuen
authors: M
authors: M
authors: Millet Sampedro
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001290:Attitude; D018592:Cross-Over Studies; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010820:Physicians; D015995:Prevalence; D011320:Primary Health Care; D012907:Smoking / Q000453:epidemiology*; D016540:Smoking Cessation; D013030:Spain / Q000453:epidemiology; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D013997:Time Factors; D014029:Tobacco Use Disorder / Q000453:epidemiology
vernacular_title: Actitud ante el tabaco y prevalencia de fumadores en médicos de atención primaria de Guipúzcoa.