Health Knowledge about Smoking, Role of Doctors, and Self-Perceived Health: A Cross-Sectional Study on Smokers’ Intentions to Quit

He, Tianfeng; Liu, Lefan; Huang, Jing; Li, Guoxing; Guo, Xinbiao

doi:10.3390/ijerph18073629

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“…Most HCPs knew that smoking cessation advice given by a healthcare professional increased the patient’s chances of quitting smoking. This was similar to findings by He et al ( 2021 ) in a study from China, which reported that doctors’ advice was associated with a smoker’s intention and action to quit smoking. Most of the HCPs were knowledgeable that most smokers would not successfully quit smoking without assistance.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 91%

Healthcare providers’ knowledge, attitudes and practices on smoking cessation intervention in the Northern Cape

Muza,

Egenasi,

Steinberg

et al. 2024

Health SA Gesondheid

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Background: Clinicians are crucial in encouraging smokers to quit through behavioural or pharmacological smoking cessation interventions. Smokers quit better with professional help. The level of healthcare providers’ (HCPs) knowledge, attitudes and counselling skills related to effective smoking cessation support in the study area remains uncertain.Aim: The study aimed to determine HCPs’ knowledge, attitudes and practices (KAP) on smoking cessation intervention strategies in the Sol Plaatje district, Northern Cape.Setting: Sol Plaatje’s 13 district municipality clinics, Kimberley, Northern Cape.Method: A descriptive, cross-sectional analytical study involving healthcare workers in the above setting.Results: A total of 165 HCPs, including medical officers, professional nurses, enrolled nurses and assistant-enrolled nurses working in primary healthcare clinics, were invited to participate in the study, with 156 completing the questionnaires. About 53.9% had no knowledge of South African tobacco smoking cessation guidelines, while 87.2% knew the importance of counselling patients about smoking and its impact on quitting. The majority of them did not know the medicines recommended for tobacco treatment in South Africa. About 89.7% expressed that smoking cessation counselling is an important part of their jobs. However, less than half indicated that they make follow-up arrangements for those attempting to quit.Conclusion: The study revealed gaps in KAP regarding smoking cessation among the respondents, necessitating the need for continuing education on the existing smoking cessation guidelines among these HCPs.Contribution: The results of this study will help to improve smoking cessation intervention knowledge among health providers.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 91%

Healthcare providers’ knowledge, attitudes and practices on smoking cessation intervention in the Northern Cape

Muza,

Egenasi,

Steinberg

et al. 2024

Health SA Gesondheid

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“…If healthy huts do encourage residents to seek care who may otherwise forgo health care due to their perception on their own health, it implies the cases of undiagnosed diseases would be less prevalent among communities with healthy huts. In [37], we find that smokers whose self-reported health is higher are less likely to consider quitting. This relationship persists after we control for their objective health status.…”

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confidence: 65%

“…A prior, we do not know whether this bias is positive or negative, but a positive bias is more likely among some groups than others. For example, some smokers may justify or rationalize their smoking behaviors by believing they are healthy [37,38]. For both reasons above, we are likely to observe a lower level of self-reported health among communities with healthy huts.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 93%

The Community Health Supporting Environments and Residents’ Health and Well-Being: The Role of Health Literacy

Liu

Huang

et al. 2021

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We evaluate the impacts that health supporting environments have on residents’ health and well-being. Using a stratified multi-stage sampling method, we select a sample of 12,360 permanent adult residents aged 15–69, and collect information on their health literacy level, as well as their demographic background and health. This individual level data is then merged with the administrative health supporting environment data. More than two thirds of residents self-reported having good/excellent health, and the percent of adults living in communities with healthy parks, healthy trails, and healthy huts in their community is 23 percent, 43 percent, and 25 percent, respectively. Controlling for a series of confounding factors at the community and individual levels, we find that healthy parks and healthy trails are positively correlated with self-reported health, which increases the probability of self-reporting good health by 2.0 percentage points (p < 0.10) and 6.0 percentage points (p < 0.01), respectively. Access to healthy huts is negatively associated with self-reported health, decreasing the probability of self-reporting good health by 5.0 percentage points (p < 0.01). Health literacy plays a role in moderating the effect of health parks, and a positive effect is more likely to be observed among adults with lower health literacy. Health supporting environments may play a role in reducing the likelihood of undiagnosed diseases and changing residents’ lifestyles, which promotes the health and well-being of residents, especially among those with inadequate health literacy.

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“…This possibly because Radio/TV could be still afforded for EMFP to receive health information. Meanwhile, investigations indicated that face-to-face consultation and community advocacy could be considered as a more effective intervention to promote health information quality [ 83 , 84 ]. Zero and negative correlations between knowledge categories and sources might be caused by poor health education organizations and health information transmission.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Association between ethnicity and health knowledge among the floating population in China

Han

Guan

2022

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Background Health equity remains a priority concerns by central government in China. This study aimed to explore ethnic gaps in access to health knowledge categories and sources based on the survey data from a publicly available dataset. Methods Data were from 2015 China Migrants Dynamic Survey issued by The National Health Commission in China. Descriptive analyses were performed to reflect geodemographic differences in the floating population of ethnic minority (EMFP) and Han majority (HMFP) with Chi-square test. Ethnic gaps in access to health knowledge categories and sources were explored with Poisson regressions, logistic regressions, and bivariate ordered probit regressions. Results In the sample, most of participants had inadequate health information literacy. There were significant differences regarding geodemographic factors between EMFP and HMFP. Illiterate EMFP had likelihood to obtain less health knowledge categories (IRR = 0.80, 95% CI 0.77–0.84) and sources (IRR = 0.83, 95% CI 0.80–0.86) as compared to illiterate HMFP. Most of correlations between health knowledge categories and sources were weak in the samples of EMFP and HMFP. Conclusion Ethnic disparities in access to health knowledge categories and sources among the floating population in China were confirmed. Further effective efforts should be provided to reduce ethnic disparities in access to health knowledge under the ethnicity-orientated support of public health resource.

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Health Knowledge about Smoking, Role of Doctors, and Self-Perceived Health: A Cross-Sectional Study on Smokers’ Intentions to Quit

Cited by 6 publications

References 20 publications

Healthcare providers’ knowledge, attitudes and practices on smoking cessation intervention in the Northern Cape

Healthcare providers’ knowledge, attitudes and practices on smoking cessation intervention in the Northern Cape

The Community Health Supporting Environments and Residents’ Health and Well-Being: The Role of Health Literacy

Association between ethnicity and health knowledge among the floating population in China

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