Mosul's Nursing Student knowledge and attitudes towards smoking

Ali Al Jumaeely, Ahmed; H Ibrahim, Radhwan

	Mosul's Nursing Student knowledge and attitudes towards smoking
Medical Journal of Tikrit
Article 1, Volume 1, Issue 151, 2012, Pages 59-65
Authors
Ahmed Ali Al Jumaeely; Radhwan H Ibrahim
Abstract
Inadequate undergraduate education about tobacco treatment has been reported. To assess student nurses’ knowledge, attitudes of the impact of smoking on health, and their attitudes towards smokers and smoking, a cross-sectional survey of the total population of baccalaureate nursing students in College of Nursing- University of Mosul was applied in present study. A questionnaire was developed by the researcher based on the previous studies. It contains 114 closed and open items in four sections: sociodemographic (4 items), attitudes to smoking (40 items), knowledge of smoking (38items) and practice (32 items). Attitudinal questions use a five-point Likert scale with ‘strongly agree' scored as 1 through to ‘strongly disagree’ scored as 5. The study finding shows respondents’ knowledge of the health effects of smoking. The mean score for general knowledge was 7.7 (out of eight) and for specialized knowledge 17.9 (out of 29), with an overall mean knowledge score of 27.1 (out of 37). Respondents who had ceased smoking had a significantly higher mean specialized knowledge score than those who still smoked and those who had never smoked (P > 0.042), but the differences in mean general and overall knowledge scores were not significant. As a conclusion; respondents generally had favorable attitudes towards these factors. Factor 2, which focused on the rights of non-smokers and smokers, could be interpreted as a personal values perspective about smoking. In this instance, respondents had mixed opinions about these rights
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