Knowledge, attitudes and beliefs about tobacco use after an educative intervention in health sciences' students
Antonio J Molina1, Tania Fernández, Daniel Fernández
1Area of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, Institute of Biomedicine, University of León, León, Spain. ajmolt@unileon.es
Purpose:
To examine the effectiveness of a tobacco control course on the improvement of knowledge, attitudes and beliefs about smoking among health sciences' students.
Methods:
This was a quasi-experimental study of community intervention carried out during the years 2005-2008, at 2 university health science centres in northwest Spain. A total of 290 students on the intervention and 256 on the control campus took part in the study. The intervention consisted of a course on the prevention and control of tobacco use offered only on the intervention campus. Data were collected before the intervention and 6 months afterwards.
Results:
After the course, significant differences between groups were observed in the improvement of knowledge, attitudes and perceived ability to act in tobacco control.
Conclusions:
The introduction of training concerning smoking through active methodologies had a positive impact on the knowledge, attitudes and beliefs about tobacco of students.
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