Knowledge, Beliefs, Attitude and Practices of Nurses Caring for Tobacco- Smoking Patients with Psychiatric Problems | ||||
| Alexandria Scientific Nursing Journal | ||||
| Volume 19, Issue 1, July 2017, Page 19-34 PDF (328.71 K) | ||||
| Document Type: Research articles | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/asalexu.2017.208324 | ||||
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| Authors | ||||
| Mervat Hosny Shalaby* 1; Sabah Abo Elfetouh Mohamed2 | ||||
| 1Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Tanta University | ||||
| 2Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Kafr El-Sheikh University | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| Tobacco smoking is a common problem among residential psychiatric settings. People with mental disorders have been found to have higher rates of nicotine dependence than the general population. They also have higher mortality rate from tobacco related conditions. Nurses working in Psychiatric and mental health settings are ideally placed to deliver smoking cessation intervention to the client. Objective: Assess knowledge, beliefs, attitude and practices of nurses caring for tobacco-smoking patients with psychiatric problem. Settings: The study was conducted at two settings; Neuropsychiatry Department at Tanta University Hospital and Psychiatric Department at Psychiatric, Neurology and Neurosurgery Center at Tanta University. Tool: Psychiatric Nurses’ Knowledge, Belief, Attitude and Practices towards Patients’ Tobacco-Smoking Questionnaire was used to collect the data for the present study. Results: The present study revealed that, more than half of studied nurses have high level of knowledge and the majority of nurses have positive attitude regarding smoking cessation, and about half of nurses have low level of practice regarding smoking cessation. Also, the majority of nurses face many challenges and barriers in helping patients to stop smoking. There were positive statistically significant relationships between the nurses' knowledge, attitude and belief and their level of practice towards psychiatric patient smoking cessation. Also this study stated a positively significant relation between nurses' level of knowledge, attitude and practices with their socio demographic characteristics; age and years of experiences, attending training program, educational level and intention to help psychiatric patient in smoking cessation. Conclusion: Nurses in general have knowledge, proper beliefs and a positive attitude toward smoking cessation yet, the level of practice of smoking cessation was low. Recommendations: The main recommendations pertaining to this study is to address training needs for nurses on smoking cessation intervention methods and techniques in addition to providing mental health nurses with the skills to deliver effective Smoking cessation intervention. | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| Smoking cessation; Nurses; Tobacco-smoking | ||||
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