title: Short report: Paediatricians' attitude towards counselling parents postpartum about their smoking behaviour.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  To investigate the attitudes of paediatricians in private practice towards counselling smoking parents of infants on their smoking behaviour.
  
  
  METHODS
  Questionnaires were mailed to 188 eligible paediatricians in Mecklenburg-West Pommerania.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The response rate to this survey was 62%. With regard to risk factors, 54% of respondents counsel parents on the occasion of well-child visits. Around 89% grant Environmental Tobacco Smoke (ETS) a high priority with regard to counselling and 26% of respondents obtain smoking status from parents routinely. From the sample, 66% wish to be trained in a brief intervention for counselling in everyday practice.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Smoking and ETS are seen as prominent health threats and paediatricians look for brief interventions to be used in clinical practice.
authors.affiliation: University of Greifswald, Medical Faculty, Institute of Epidemiology and Social Medicine, Greifswald, Germany. hannoeve@uni-greifswald.de
authors.forename: Wolfgang
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Hannöver
authors.forename: Jochen René
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: Thyrian
authors.forename: Ulrich
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: John
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D003376:Counseling; D005260:Female; D005858:Germany; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010290:Parents / Q000193:education* / Q000523:psychology; D010372:Pediatrics; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D010820:Physicians / Q000523:psychology*; D049590:Postpartum Period; D012907:Smoking / Q000009:adverse effects* / Q000453:epidemiology; D000074606:Smoking Prevention; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires