Toward pharmacy-based smoking cessation services in Nigeria: Knowledge, perception and practice of community pharmacists

Introduction Worldwide, tobacco smoking is one of the leading causes of avoidable deaths. In Nigeria, there is currently no clinical guidelines for tobacco dependence treatment. However, globally, pharmacy-based smoking cessation intervention has been associated with improved cessation rates and qua...

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Main Authors: Wuraola Akande-Sholabi, Yusuff Adebayo Adebisi
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Language:English
Published: European Publishing 2021-01-01
Series:Population Medicine
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Online Access:http://www.populationmedicine.eu/Toward-pharmacy-based-smoking-cessation-services-in-Nigeria-Knowledge-perception,131262,0,2.html
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spelling doaj-a2e7c6f98ce2415f8bd02c0bd669dff02021-03-10T08:32:25ZengEuropean PublishingPopulation Medicine2654-14592021-01-013January1910.18332/popmed/131262131262Toward pharmacy-based smoking cessation services in Nigeria: Knowledge, perception and practice of community pharmacistsWuraola Akande-Sholabi0Yusuff Adebayo Adebisi1Department of Clinical Pharmacy and Pharmacy Administration, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Ibadan, NigeriaDepartment of Clinical Pharmacy and Pharmacy Administration, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Ibadan, NigeriaIntroduction Worldwide, tobacco smoking is one of the leading causes of avoidable deaths. In Nigeria, there is currently no clinical guidelines for tobacco dependence treatment. However, globally, pharmacy-based smoking cessation intervention has been associated with improved cessation rates and quality of life. This study aims at assessing the knowledge and perception of community pharmacists about smoking cessation and tobacco harm reduction as well as barriers to the practice of pharmacybased smoking cessation intervention. Methods A cross-sectional survey was carried out among 104 community pharmacists, between August and December 2019, using a self-administered paper questionnaire. Data entering, cleansing, and analysis were done using IBM SPSS (version 23). Descriptive statistics including frequencies and percentages were used to summarize the data. Results Thirteen pharmacists (12.5%) were providing smoking cessation services. One-tenth (10.6%) of the pharmacists were aware of tobacco harm reduction. The majority (89.4%) were willing to attend smoking cessation training. Among the respondents, 65 (62.5%) had poor knowledge regarding smoking cessation and tobacco harm reduction. Lack of knowledge and skills were reported by all (100%) as a barrier to providing the service. However, 101 (97.1%) community pharmacists agreed that smoking cessation treatment is an important role of pharmacists. Conclusions A suboptimal level of knowledge of smoking cessation and tobacco harm reduction was noted among the community pharmacists. However, they believed smoking cessation intervention is an important role of pharmacists. It is advocated that smoking cessation training should be included as part of the Pharmacists’ Council of Nigeria Mandatory Continuing Professional Development Training. Thus, it is imperative to establish basic national smoking cessation guidelines that can be functional towards reducing mortality and morbidity associated with tobacco smoking in Nigeria.http://www.populationmedicine.eu/Toward-pharmacy-based-smoking-cessation-services-in-Nigeria-Knowledge-perception,131262,0,2.htmlsmoking cessationtobacco harm reductioncommunity pharmacistsnigeria
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Toward pharmacy-based smoking cessation services in Nigeria: Knowledge, perception and practice of community pharmacists
Population Medicine
smoking cessation
tobacco harm reduction
community pharmacists
nigeria
author_facet Wuraola Akande-Sholabi
Yusuff Adebayo Adebisi
author_sort Wuraola Akande-Sholabi
title Toward pharmacy-based smoking cessation services in Nigeria: Knowledge, perception and practice of community pharmacists
title_short Toward pharmacy-based smoking cessation services in Nigeria: Knowledge, perception and practice of community pharmacists
title_full Toward pharmacy-based smoking cessation services in Nigeria: Knowledge, perception and practice of community pharmacists
title_fullStr Toward pharmacy-based smoking cessation services in Nigeria: Knowledge, perception and practice of community pharmacists
title_full_unstemmed Toward pharmacy-based smoking cessation services in Nigeria: Knowledge, perception and practice of community pharmacists
title_sort toward pharmacy-based smoking cessation services in nigeria: knowledge, perception and practice of community pharmacists
publisher European Publishing
series Population Medicine
issn 2654-1459
publishDate 2021-01-01
description Introduction Worldwide, tobacco smoking is one of the leading causes of avoidable deaths. In Nigeria, there is currently no clinical guidelines for tobacco dependence treatment. However, globally, pharmacy-based smoking cessation intervention has been associated with improved cessation rates and quality of life. This study aims at assessing the knowledge and perception of community pharmacists about smoking cessation and tobacco harm reduction as well as barriers to the practice of pharmacybased smoking cessation intervention. Methods A cross-sectional survey was carried out among 104 community pharmacists, between August and December 2019, using a self-administered paper questionnaire. Data entering, cleansing, and analysis were done using IBM SPSS (version 23). Descriptive statistics including frequencies and percentages were used to summarize the data. Results Thirteen pharmacists (12.5%) were providing smoking cessation services. One-tenth (10.6%) of the pharmacists were aware of tobacco harm reduction. The majority (89.4%) were willing to attend smoking cessation training. Among the respondents, 65 (62.5%) had poor knowledge regarding smoking cessation and tobacco harm reduction. Lack of knowledge and skills were reported by all (100%) as a barrier to providing the service. However, 101 (97.1%) community pharmacists agreed that smoking cessation treatment is an important role of pharmacists. Conclusions A suboptimal level of knowledge of smoking cessation and tobacco harm reduction was noted among the community pharmacists. However, they believed smoking cessation intervention is an important role of pharmacists. It is advocated that smoking cessation training should be included as part of the Pharmacists’ Council of Nigeria Mandatory Continuing Professional Development Training. Thus, it is imperative to establish basic national smoking cessation guidelines that can be functional towards reducing mortality and morbidity associated with tobacco smoking in Nigeria.
topic smoking cessation
tobacco harm reduction
community pharmacists
nigeria
url http://www.populationmedicine.eu/Toward-pharmacy-based-smoking-cessation-services-in-Nigeria-Knowledge-perception,131262,0,2.html
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