Prevalence and determinants of tobacco, e-cigarettes, and cannabis use among nursing students: A multicenter cross-sectional study

Aim

To analyse changes in prevalence, knowledge, beliefs and attitudes relating to smoking among undergraduate nursing and physiotherapy students over a 10-year period.



Background

Few studies have been performed to describe changes in the use of tobacco and associated characteristics.



Design

This study was a sequential cross-sectional study.



Methods

A self-administered survey was performed during three academic years among nursing and physiotherapy students in a Spanish Faculty of Health Sciences.



Findings

The proportion of smokers among nursing and physiotherapy students in 2003, 2008 and 2013 was 29·3%, 24·7% and 18·2% respectively. The ages when participants first smoked did not vary over the years. The Fagerstrom test showed low nicotine dependence. A significantly high percentage of students stated they were unaware of the link between smoking and bladder cancer and oral leukoplakia. Students declared they were unaware of the association between under-weight new-borns and second-hand smoke. The majority of students recognized that healthcare professionals were role models in society, there being little variation over the years studied. In relation to education and training, the study showed a need to inform students about methods and strategies to help people quit smoking.



Conclusions

The prevalence of smoking among nursing and physiotherapy students decreased over the ten years. Active programmes should be implemented to encourage those university students who smoke to break this habit. The decline over the years in knowledge about smoking provided evidence of a significant deficit in undergraduate training.

Changes in use, knowledge, beliefs and attitudes relating to tobacco among nursing and physiotherapy students: a 10-year analysis.

Background

As future health educators, nursing and physiotherapy students will play an essential role in the prevention of smoking.



Aim

To determine the prevalence of smoking among students and to analyse their knowledge of and attitudes towards smoking.



Method

This was a descriptive cross-sectional study using an anonymous questionnaire and conducted in a Spanish Faculty of Health Sciences in 2013.



Findings

247 nursing and physiotherapy students (82.33%) participated in the study. The global prevalence of smoking (18.2%) was lower compare with the general population group of the same age. We have observed statistical significance in relation to previous studies. Nursing and physiotherapy students showed a low nicotine dependence. We found a lack of knowledge about the harmful effects of cigarette consumption on health. Statistically significant results were also found in relation to degree courses (p < 0.01) as regards students' opinions about their knowledge of strategies and methods to help patients stop smoking.



Conclusion

Most students started smoking before commencing their university studies; consequently, interventions should focus on cessation programmes. An analysis of university curricula leading to the award of a degree in the health sciences could serve to identify educational deficiencies in order to implement the necessary modifications.



Implications for nursing and health policy

This paper presents an update in tobacco use characteristics amongst nursing and physiotherapy students. Those results have showed a need to improve the curricula in order to develop specific programmes to improve knowledge, attitudes and beliefs. Measures to prevent smoking must be taken at school.

Knowledge, attitudes and tobacco use among nursing and physiotherapy students.

Diese Literaturubersicht thematisiert den aktuellen Forschungsstand zu psychischen Belastungsfaktoren und Ressourcen in der ambulanten Pflege. Potenzielle Belastungsfaktoren werden in der beschriebenen Literatur aus den Bereichen Arbeitsinhalt (z. B. Umgang mit Leiden), Arbeitsorganisation (z. B. Schichtsystem), soziale Beziehung (z. B. fehlende Anerkennung), Arbeitsumgebung (z. B. zeitliche Verzogerung aufgrund von hohem Verkehrsaufkommen) sowie neue Arbeitsformen (z. B. fehlende Abgrenzung von Arbeits- und Privatleben) beschrieben. Arbeitsressourcen umfassen z. B. die hohe Eigenverantwortung, den grosen Freiraum, die Sinnhaftigkeit der Arbeit sowie die Moglichkeit des Selbstschutzes durch das haufige Wechseln des Settings. Es zeigt sich ein dringender Forschungsbedarf, psychische Belastungsfaktoren sowie Ressourcen noch systematischer zu ermitteln sowie mogliche Fehlbeanspruchungsfolgen offenzulegen. Besonders vor dem Hintergrund des demografischen Wandels und der damit verbundenen Verschiebung der Altersstrukturen bedarf es weiterer, umfassender Forschungsansatze, um zukunftig in der ambulanten Pflege gesundheitsfordernde Masnahmen zielgruppenspezifisch entwickeln zu konnen.

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Psychische Belastungsfaktoren und Ressourcen in der ambulanten Pflege

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