Pharmacists' smoking cessation practices: relationship to their knowledge and skills, attitudes, and perceptions of
Mary Jane Ashley1, Joan M Brewster, J Charles Victor
1Ontario Tobacco Research Unit, Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. jane.ashley@utoronto.ca
Objective:
To assess factors associated with pharmacists' practices regarding patients' smoking and smoking cessation.
Design:
Cross-sectional analysis.
Setting:
Four Canadian provinces (Ontario, Québec, Saskatchewan, Prince Edward Island).
Participants:
Practicing community pharmacists (n = 906; weighted n = 897).
Intervention:
Population-based mailed questionnaire survey with 72% response rate.
Main Outcome Measures:
Bivariate and multivariate relationships between 12 clinical interventions regarding smoking and smoking cessation and 7 domains: basic pharmacologic knowledge; applied health science knowledge and skills; positive, negative and economic-related attitudes toward smoking cessation; perceptions of pharmacists' roles with patients who smoke: assessing and motivating patients; assisting, referring and following up.
Results:
Basic pharmacologic knowledge and applied health science knowledge and skills were independently related to 12 and 10 interventions, respectively. Positive attitudes toward smoking cessation were independently related to 8 interventions. Negative attitudes and economic-related attitudes toward smoking cessation were each independently related to only 1 intervention. Perceptions of pharmacists' roles with respect to "assessing and motivating patients," and "assisting, referring, and following up" were independently related to 8 and 3 interventions, respectively.
Conclusion:
Initiatives to increase tobacco-related knowledge and skills and enhance positive attitudes and role perceptions with respect to smoking and smoking cessation may promote interventions by community pharmacists with patients who smoke.
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