Cognitive mapping tobacco control advice for dentistry: a dental PBRN study
Haiyan Qu1, Thomas K Houston, Jessica H Williams
1Department of Health Services Administration, School of Health Professions, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294-3361, USA.
Objective:
To identify facilitative strategies that could be used in developing a tobacco cessation program for community dental practices.
Methods:
Nominal group technique (NGT) meetings and a card-sort task were used to obtain formative data. A cognitive mapping approach involving multidimensional scaling and hierarchical cluster analysis was used for data analysis.
Results:
Three NGT meetings conducted with 23 dental professionals yielded 27 nonredundant facilitative strategies. A 2-dimensional 4-cluster cognitive map provided an organizational framework for understanding these strategies.
Conclusion:
Views of the target population solicited in a structured format provided clear direction for designing a tobacco cessation intervention.
