title: University hospital physicians' attitudes and practices for smoking cessation counseling in Malatya, Turkey.
abstract: The aim of the study is to determine attitudes and self-reported practices performance for smoking cessation counseling of the physicians working at a university hospital in Malatya, Turkey. All physicians who were providing health care to adult patients in 19 outpatient clinics at the hospital were administered a self-reported questionnaire. Of the physicians, 26.5% reported that they were always asking about their patients' smoking history and 22.6% were always advising their smoker patients to quit. Men non-smoker physicians more often practiced counseling than men smoker physicians. Negative attitudes of physicians about smoking cessation counseling negatively effected their practices. Negative attitudes were significantly higher among men smoker physicians than non-smokers but attitudes did not differ among female smoker and non-smoker physicians. The findings showed that smoking cessation counseling was rarely practiced by physicians and physicians' practices differed by their smoking behavior, departments and attitudes towards smoking cessation.
authors.affiliation: Department of Public Health, Inonu University, Medical School, 44280 Malatya, Turkey. ggunes@inonu.edu.tr
authors.forename: Gulsen
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Gunes
authors.forename: Leyla
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Karaoglu
authors.forename: Metin F
authors.initials: MF
authors.lastname: Genc
authors.forename: Erkan
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Pehlivan
authors.forename: Mucahit
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Egri
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D003376:Counseling / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D005260:Female; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006785:Hospitals, University; D006801:Humans; D007396:Internship and Residency; D008297:Male; D008505:Medical Staff, Hospital / Q000193:education / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D009341:Negativism; D010819:Physician's Role; D010818:Practice Patterns, Physicians' / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D012907:Smoking / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000523:psychology; D016540:Smoking Cessation / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D000074606:Smoking Prevention; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014421:Turkey / Q000453:epidemiology