Barriers among nurses to providing smoking cessation advice to hospitalized smokers.
Nine focus groups were conducted with 75 staff nurses in three hospitals to determine the low participation rate of nurses in a smoking cessation programs directed at patients. Nurses felt that hospitalization was an appropriate time to offer quit-smoking advice to patients, particularly those with smoking related diseases. However, many felt advice should be given only to those receptive to it. The most common barriers to providing smoking cessation advice were lack of concrete techniques, or referral to provide and fear of alienating patients who were not receptive to hearing advice.
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Division of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, 1300 South Second Street, Suite 300, Minneapolis, MN 55454, USA.
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Hennrikus
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D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D003376:Counseling / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D017144:Focus Groups; D006293:Health Promotion / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans; D007297:Inpatients / Q000523:psychology; D008910:Minnesota; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D010358:Patient Participation / Q000523:psychology; D016540:Smoking Cessation / Q000523:psychology*