[A survey on frequencies of smoking cessation intervention for patients among clinical nurses].
OBJECTIVE
This study was conducted to 1) find out the characteristic of smoke related characteristics of nurses. 2) find out the frequency of Smoking cessation intervention delivered by nurses. 3) compare the differences in mean scores of smoking cessation interventions by general characteristics.


METHODS
The survey questionnaire was mailed out to nurses who were working at the randomly selected hospitals throughout the country from November 28, 2003 to February 15, 2004.


RESULTS
0.6% of nurses were current smokers 40.7% of nurses have attended smoking cessation education. Nurses who were older, had masters degree, had oncology experience, higher position, participated in smoking cessation education, and had smoking related disease among family members were variables related to higher frequencies in delivering tobacco interventions.


CONCLUSIONS
Although nurses are in an important position in delivering tobacco interventions and provide resources, their participation in consistent delivery of an intervention is less than desirable. To help nurses to participate in the assessment of tobacco use and interventions for cessation, the development of educational program is necessary.
Shin
Sung Rae
SR
Department of Nursing, Sahmyook University, Seoul, Korea.
Oh
Pok Ja
PJ
D000328:Adult; D003625:Data Collection; D005260:Female; D006293:Health Promotion; D006801:Humans; D009726:Nurses / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D012907:Smoking / Q000453:epidemiology; D016540:Smoking Cessation / Q000706:statistics & numerical data