Cognitive dissonance towards the smoking habit among nursing and physiotherapy students at the University of Balearic Islands in Spain

International Nursing Review

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 95-101

  Pericas, J ^a   Gonzalez S ^a   Bennasar, M ^a   De Pedro, J ^a   Aguilo A ^a   Bauza L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT DE LES ILLES BALEARS   (Spain)

Author keywords

Attitudes; Behaviour; Cognitive Dissonance; Nursing; Physiotherapy; Tobacco Smoking; University Students

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CANNABIS SMOKING; COGNITION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HABIT; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL PERSONNEL; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; NURSING STUDENT; PHYSIOTHERAPY; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; SMOKING; SPAIN; STATISTICS; UNIVERSITY;

ALCOHOL DRINKING; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; COGNITIVE DISSONANCE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HABITS; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; MARIJUANA SMOKING; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; PHYSICAL THERAPY (SPECIALTY); POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SMOKING; SPAIN; STUDENTS, HEALTH OCCUPATIONS; STUDENTS, NURSING; UNIVERSITIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 60249100425     PISSN: 00208132     EISSN: 14667657     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1466-7657.2008.00669.x     Document Type: Article

References (41)

1. Alberdi-erice, M., et al 2007) Evolución de los hábitos de consumo de tabaco y alcohol en estudiantes de enfermería. Enfermería Clínica, 17 (2 63 70.
2. Banegas, J.R., et al 2001) Mortalidad atribuible al tabaquismo en España en 1998. Medicina Clinica, 117, 692 694.
3. Baron-Epel, O., Josphsohn, K. Ehrenfeld, M. (2004) Nursing students perceptions and smoking prevention. Nurse Education Today, 24, 145 151.
4. Beletsioti-Stika, P. Scriven, A. (2006) Smoking among Greek nurses and their readiness to quit. International Nursing Review, 53, 150 156.
5. Casas, F. Sánchez, M. (2003) Tabaquismo: prevalencia y actitudes entre los estudiantes de enfermería. Educare21, 4 e journal) Available at: http://www.enfermeria21.com/educare/secciones/ensenyando/detalle-index.php? Mg%3D%3D&ODc%3D&MjU%3D&MTAwNA%3D%3D (accessed 10 February 2008).
6. Chalmers, K., Seguire, M. Brown, J. (2002) Tobacco use and baccalaureate nursing studes: a study of their attitudes, beliefs and personal behaviours. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 40, 17 24.
7. Chan, S., Sarna, L., Wong, D. Lam, T. (2007) Nurses' tobacco-related knowledge, attitudes, and practice in four major cities in China. Journal of Nursing Scholarship, 39 (1 46 53.
8. Chapman, S., Wong, W. Smith, W. (1993) Self-exempting beliefs about smoking and health: differences between smokers and ex-smokers. American Journal of Public Health, 83, 215 219.
9. Clark, E., McCann, T., Rowe, K. Lazenbatt, A. (2004) Cognitive dissonance and undergradute nursing students' knowledge of, and attitudes about, smoking. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 46 (6 586 594.
10. Comité Nacional de Prevención del Tabaquismo (CNPT) & GlaxoSmithKline (2006) Encuesta sobre conocimientos, actitudes, creencias y conductas en relación al consumo de tabaco. Available at: http://www.cnpt.es/docu-pdf/C26082INFORMEDERESULTADOS-29-12-06.pdf (accessed 7 March 2008).
11. D'Amico, E. McCarthy, D. (2006) Escalation and initiation of younger adolescents' substance use: the impact of perceived peer use. Journal of Adolescent Health, 39, 481 487.
12. Durkin, A. (2007) Promoting smoking cessation among nursing students: how faculty can help. Nursing Education Perspectives, 28 (3 150 154.
13. Durmaz, A. Ustün, B. (2006) Determination of smoking habits and personality traits among nursing studies. The Journal of Nursing Education, 45 (8 328 333.
14. Erosky Foundation (2006) Fumar en espacios públicos. Consumer Erosky, 99, 4 9 e journal) Available at: http://revista.consumer.es/web/es/ 20060501/pdf/temaportada.pdf (accessed 12 January 2008).
15. Fernández Garcia, D., et al 2007) Tobacco use amongst nursing and physiotherapy students: a cross sectional questionnaire survey. International Journal of Nursing Studies, 44 (5 780 785.
16. Festinger, L. (1957) A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance. Stanford University Press, Stanford, CA.
17. Health-EU (2008) The Public Health Portal of the European Union. European Community Health Indicators. Available at: http://ec.europa.eu/health-eu/my- lifestyle/tobacco/index-en.htm (accessed 7 April 2008).
18. Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE) (2006) Encuesta Nacional de Salud. Tablas nacionales. Available at: http://www.ine.es/jaxi/menu.do?type= pcaxis&path=/t15/p419&file=inebase&L=0 (accessed 4 May 2008).
19. Krommydas, G., et al 2004) Smoking in health science students with asthma. Canadian Respiratory Journal, 11 (7 476.
20. McCann, T., Clark, E. Rowe, K. (2005) Undergraduate nursing students' attitudes towards smoking health promotion. Nursing & Health Sciences, 7, 164 174.
21. McKenna, H., et al 2001) Qualified nurses' smoking prevalence: their reasons for smoking and desire to quit. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 35 (5 769 775.
22. McKenna, H., et al 2003) The role of stress, peer influence and education levels on the smoking behaviour of nurses. International Journal of Nursing Studies, 40 (4 359 366.
23. Pericàs, J. Zaforteza, C. (2004) Y a pesar de todo seguimos ahumando a los demás. Adicciones, 16 (3 219 224.
24. Pericàs, J., Bauzà, M.L. Ponsell, E. (2004) Epidemiología del Tabaquismo en la Universitat de les Illes Balears. Prevención del Tabaquismo, 6 (2 52 59.
25. Polland, B. (2000) The 'considerate' smoker in public space: the micro-politics and political economy of 'doing the right thing Health & Place, 6, 1 14.
26. Rapp, K., Buchele, G., Jahnke, A.G. Weiland, S.K. (2006) A cluster-randomized trial on smoking cessation in German student nurses. Preventive Medicine, 42 (6 443 448.
27. Reid, J., Manske, S. Leatherdale, S. (2008) Factors related to adolescents' estimation of peer smoking prevalence. Health Education Research, 23 (1 81 93.
28. Rigotti, N., Regan, S., Moran, S. Wechsler, H. (2003) Students' opinion of tobacco control policies recommended for US colleges: a national survey. Tobacco Control, 12, 251 256.
29. Samuels, N. (2007) Cigarette use among Israeli adolescents: why do they smoke? Harefuah, 146 (3 184 186.
30. Sejr, H. Osler, M. (2002) Do smoking and health education influence student nurses' knowledge, attitudes and professional behaviour? Preventive Medicine, 34, 260 265.
31. Sekijima, K., Seki, N. Suzuki, H. (2005) Smoking prevalence and attitudes toward tobacco among student and staff nurses in Niigata, Japan. Tohoku Journal of Experimental Medicine, 206 (3 187 194.
32. Seyedfatemi, N., Tafreshi, M. Hagani, H. (2007) Experienced stressors and coping strategies among Iranian nursing students. BMC Nursing, 6, 11 e journal) Available at: http://www.biomedcentral.com/content/pdf/1472-6955-6-11.pdf (accessed 20 February 2008).
33. Smith, D.R. Leggat, P.A. (2007) Tobacco smoking habits among a complete cross-section of Australian nursing students. Nursing & Health Sciences, 9 (2 82 89.
34. Steptoe, A., et al 2002) An international comparison of tobacco smoking, beliefs and risk awareness in university students from 23 countries. Addiction, 97 (12 1561 1571.
35. Suzuki, K., et al 2005) Smoking among Japanese nursing students: nationwide survey. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 49 (3 268 275.
36. Thy, T., Boker, T., Gallefoss, F. Bakke, P. (2007) Hospital doctors' attitudes toward giving their patients smoking cessation help. The Clinical Respiratory Journal, 1, 30 36.
37. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (2004) The Health Consequences of Smoking: A Report of the Surgeon General. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Office on Smoking and Health, Atlanta, GA. Available at: http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data- statistics/sgr/sgr-2004/chapters.htm (accessed 10 February 2007).
38. Villar, E., et al 2004) Dimensiones psicopatológicas asociadas al consumo de tabaco en población universitaria. Anales de psicología, 20 (1 33 46.
39. Watson, H., Whyte, R., Schartau, E. Jamieson, E. (2006) Survey of student nurses and midwives: smoking and alcohol use. British Journal of Nursing, 15 (22 1212 1216.
40. WHO (2006) The WHO STEPwise approach to Surveillance of noncommunicable diseases (STEPS). STEPS Instrument for NCD Risk Factors (Core and Expanded version 2.0). Available at: http://www.who.int/chp/steps/manual/en/index.html (accessed 15 November 2007).
41. WHO (2008) WHO Report on the Global Tobacco Epidemic, 2008 - The MPOWER package. Available at: http://www.who.int/tobacco/mpower/mpower-report-full- 2008.pdf (accessed 10 March 2008).