Attitudes of Italian dental and dental hygiene students toward tobacco-use cessation

European Journal of Dental Education

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 17-25

  Pizzo, G ^a   Licata, M E ^a   Piscopo, M R ^a   Coniglio, M A ^b   Pignato, S ^b   Davis, J M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

^c SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attitudes; Dental hygiene students; Dental students; Knowledge; Smoking; Tobacco cessation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; COUNSELING; DENTAL ASSISTANT; DENTAL EDUCATION; DENTAL STUDENT; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HEALTH; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; ITALY; LEUKOPLAKIA; LUNG TUMOR; MALE; MOUTH TUMOR; PERIODONTAL DISEASE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CORONARY DISEASE; COUNSELING; DENTAL HYGIENISTS; EDUCATION, DENTAL; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; ITALY; LEUKOPLAKIA, ORAL; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MOUTH NEOPLASMS; ORAL HEALTH; PERIODONTAL DISEASES; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; STUDENTS, DENTAL;

EID: 74049124495     PISSN: 13965883     EISSN: 16000579     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0579.2009.00587.x     Document Type: Article

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