title: Office-based training in tobacco cessation for dental professionals.
abstract: During a 90-minute, on-site training session, a dentist/tobacco-cessation educator trained 293 dental professionals from 57 offices. The authors report statistically significant increases between the pre-training and follow-up surveys for 12 tobacco-cessation activities and the amount of time spent on such activities (P < .001). Using participants' estimates-taken at three months after the training-the authors calculated that an average of two patients per office had stopped using tobacco, two had stopped and relapsed, and eight patients were considering stopping tobacco usage.
authors.affiliation: Department of Dental Medicine and Public Health, School of Dentistry, University of Southern California, USA.
authors.forename: G J
authors.initials: GJ
authors.lastname: Wood
authors.forename: J J
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Cecchini
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Nathason
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Hiroshige
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D002140:California; D003797:Dental Staff / Q000193:education*; D004498:Education, Dental, Continuing / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D007318:Inservice Training; D015397:Program Evaluation; D016540:Smoking Cessation / Q000379:methods; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires