Tobacco use amongst nursing and physiotherapy students: a cross sectional questionnaire survey

International Journal of Nursing Studies
Daniel Fernández GarcíaJosé Manuel De Luis González

Abstract

The aim of this research was to evaluate the prevalence, knowledge and attitudes of tobacco use in the students of the School of Health Sciences in the Campus of Ponferrada (University of León, Spain). Two-hundred and sixty-six (88.3% of respondents) students were assessed by a confidential questionnaire, which was distributed, completed by the students and collected in the same session. This was a descriptive quantitative survey research design to examine the tobacco use among nursing and physiotherapy students. The global prevalence was 29.3%. In relation to academic courses we have observed statistical significance (p=0.006). Therefore students increased tobacco use while their training at the school. Seventy (89.7%) of students were smokers prior to commencing degree. Nursing students declared were unfamiliar with strategies and methods to help people to quit. The first academic course students (78.6%) significantly differed (p=0.009) from second and third course. We have found scores statistically significant (p=0.04) about the students opinion about health professionals social role function. Tobacco consumption in university health students in the third year was higher than people aged 16-24 years old reported from the Na...Continue Reading

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Jun 15, 2010·Nurse Education Today·Daniel FernandezJosé Manuel De Luis
Jun 30, 2009·International Journal of Nursing Studies·Antonio J MolinaVicente Martín
Sep 21, 2016·Zdravstveno Varstvo·Bogdana Adriana NasuiCodruta Alina Popescu
Sep 19, 2014·Central European Journal of Public Health·Reem T Abu ShomarHatem J Alharazin
Apr 4, 2020·Medicine·Daniel Fernández-GarcíaSantiago Martínez-Isasi

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