| Summary: | 碩士 === 長榮大學 === 護理學系碩士班 === 101 === Background: Community pharmacists have increasingly important roles in helping smokers quit. However, research about their practice and influencing factors regarding offering smoking cessation counseling is lacking.
Purpose: To determine the current smoking cessation practices of community pharmacists in Taiwan and to examine related factors of their practices.
Method: A cross-sectional survey was conducted. A total of 1162 community pharmacies made the contracts with Department of Health across 16 counties and Bureau of Health Promotion, Department of Health, Executive Yuan to provide smoking cessation counseling. Two hundred and eleven participants were included using stratified random sampling. A questionnaire was mailed to community pharmacist and a following phone call was conducted to increase the response rate. The 69-item structured questionnaire included demographic information, setting smoking cessation products, and cessation counseling regarding knowledge, attitudes, skills, self-efficacy, and practices. Data analyses were conducted using descriptive analyses, t test, ANOVA, correlation and multiple regression in JMP 9.0 statistic software.
Result: The results showed that the contract pharmacists had more practice than non-contract pharmacists ( p＜.0001). Participants receiving cessation counseling training provided more services than those who not receiving (p＜.001). A multiple regression model showed that skills (β = .36, p = .01) and attitudes (β = .15, p = .017) were important factors influencing pharmacists' cessation counseling practice.
Conclusion: The cessation training courses promoted pharmacists' practice. Health policy makers should develop cessation training courses specific to skills and attitudes of cessation counseling to promote pharmacists' cessation practice. Therefore, policy slogan "Inception of Cessation Treatment" was carried out.
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