Abstract: Smoking is a substance, most commonly tobacco which is burned and the smoke is tasted or inhaled. Adults with some form of mental illness have a smoking rate 70 percent higher than adults with no mental illness. An admission to hospital, nurses’ role and wide availability puts them in a prime position to encourage people to quit smoking. Knowledge and practice towards smoking and smoking cessation have an important role in implementing smoking cessation. The major finding of the study showed that the respondents were 77 (73.3%) out of 105. Among them, 2 (2.6%) and 75 (97.4%) subjects were smokers and non-smokers respectively; 25 (32.5%) and 52 (67.5%) subjects were with and without de-addiction unit experience respectively. Irrespective of this experience majority of subjects possessed good knowledge and practice. Irrespective of gender, nurses possessed good knowledge, but male subjects’ practice was significantly (χ²=2.254, p=0.132) high than female. The mean score was 31.69± 6.260 and 28.7 ±8.35 for knowledge and practice respectively .There was positive correlation between knowledge and practice (r = 0.400 at p=0.01 level).
Keywords: Smoking cessation, staff nurses, knowledge, practice, de-addiction unit.
Title: Nurses’ Smoking Status, Smoking Related Knowledge and Practice on Smoking Cessation Care to the Patients
Author: Banu .M.R
International Journal of Healthcare Sciences
ISSN 2348-5728 (Online)
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