title: Results of a questionnaire about nurse students' smoking habits and knowledges in an Italian teaching school of nursing.
abstract: Six-hundred and sixty-two nurse students (aged 25.2 +/- 4.11 years; 153 were males) answered a self-administered, anonymous questionnaire about smoking habits and knowledges in a large urban Teaching School of Nursing. The overall response rate was 88%. Current smokers were 336 (51%), former smokers 80 (12%). Nurse students claimed to know the dangers of tobacco and nurse training seemed to modify the preferential source of information about tobacco smoking towards medical fonts; however, only a quarter of nurse students considered medical smoking cessation approaches as useful for quitting and advised patients with tobacco-related diseases against smoking.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pneumology, L. Armanni Hospital, Arco (TN), Firenze.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Boccoli
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Federici
authors.forename: A S
authors.initials: AS
authors.lastname: Melani
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: De Paola
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D001294:Attitude to Health; D005260:Female; D006266:Health Education / Q000379:methods; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012907:Smoking / Q000523:psychology*; D016540:Smoking Cessation / Q000379:methods; D013338:Students, Nursing / Q000523:psychology*