Self-efficacy for smoking cessation counseling parents in primary care: an office-based intervention for pediatricians and family physicians.
Few pediatricians or family physicians routinely counsel parental smokers to quit smoking. Poor self-efficacy in smoking cessation counseling skills may be one barrier to counseling. Analysis of self-efficacy scores of physicians participating in the Clean Air for Healthy Children program demonstrates that pediatricians had higher self-efficacy scores for explaining the health risks of environmental tobacco smoke on children (P < .05); family physicians had higher self-efficacy scores for smoking cessation counseling knowledge (P < .05). Posttraining, both pediatricians and family physicians who participated in an office-based smoking cessation counseling program had significantly higher scores in all 4 self-efficacy domains (P < .01).
Garg
Arvin
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Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Division of General Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21287, USA.
Serwint
Janet R
JR
Higman
Susan
S
Kanof
Ann
A
Schell
Dottie
D
Colon
Iris
I
Butz
Arlene M
AM
D000328:Adult; D003376:Counseling; D005194:Family Practice / Q000592:standards; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010290:Parents / Q000193:education; D010372:Pediatrics / Q000592:standards; D011320:Primary Health Care / Q000592:standards*; D011368:Professional-Family Relations; D018570:Risk Assessment; D020377:Self Efficacy; D012655:Self-Evaluation Programs; D016540:Smoking Cessation; D014028:Tobacco Smoke Pollution / Q000517:prevention & control; D016896:Treatment Outcome
D014028:Tobacco Smoke Pollution