Perceptions of dental students in India about smoking cessation counseling

Journal of Dental Education

Volumn 75, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1603-1610

  Rajasundaram, Prakash ^a   Sequeira, Peter Simon ^a   Jain, Jithesh ^a  

^a Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences   (India)

Author keywords

Attitudes; Dental students; India; Smoking; Smoking cessation counseling; Tobacco; Tobacco counseling

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COUNSELING; DENTAL EDUCATION; DENTAL STUDENT; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; INDIA; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; METHODOLOGY; MOTIVATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; ROLE PLAYING; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; TEACHING;

ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COUNSELING; DENTIST-PATIENT RELATIONS; EDUCATION, DENTAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIA; INTERNSHIP AND RESIDENCY; MALE; MOTIVATION; QUESTIONNAIRES; ROLE; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; STUDENTS, DENTAL; TEACHING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84855840672     PISSN: 00220337     EISSN: 19307837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (20)

1. Jha P, Chaloupka FJ. Curbing the epidemic: governments and the economics of tobacco control. Washington, DC: The World Bank, 1999:21-8.
2. Jha P, Jacob B, Gajalakshmi V, Gupta PC, Dhingra N, Kumar R, et al. A nationally representative case-control study of smoking and death in India. N Engl J Med 2008;358:1137-47. (Pubitemid 351398488)
3. Gajalakshmi V, Peto R, Kanaka TS, Jha P. Smoking and mortality from tuberculosis and other diseases in India: retrospective study of 43, 000 adult male deaths and 35, 000 controls. Lancet 2003;362:507-15. (Pubitemid 36976714)
4. National Family Health Survey 3, 2005-06. At: www.whoindia.org/LinkFiles/ Tobacco-Free-lnitiative-nfhs3.pdf. Accessed: January 9, 2011.
5. Owen N, Davies MJ. Smokers' preferences for assistance with cessation. Prev Med 1990;19:424-31. (Pubitemid 20261187)
6. Glynn TJ. Relative effectiveness of physician-initiated smoking cessation programs. Cancer Bull 1988;40:359-64.
7. Nagy K, Barabas K, Nari T. Attitudes of Hungarian health care professional students to tobacco and alcohol. Eur J Dent Educ 2004;4:32-5.
8. Campbell HS, Sletten M, Petty TL. Patient perceptions of tobacco cessation services in dental offices. J Am Dent Assoc 1999;130(2):219-26.
9. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Cigarette smoking among adults: United States, 1994. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 1996;45(27):588-90.
10. Tomar SL, Husten CG, Manley M W. Do dentists and physicians advise tobacco users to quit? J Am Dent Assoc 1996;127:259-65. (Pubitemid 126432992)
11. Locker D. Smoking and oral health in older adults. Can J Public Health 1992;83:429-32.
12. Cannick GF, Horowitz AM, Reed SG, Drury TF, Day TA. Opinions of South Carolina dental students toward tobacco use interventions. J Public Health Dent 2006;66(1):44-8. (Pubitemid 44874314)
13. Vanobbergen J, Nuytens P, van Herk M, De Visschere L. Dental students' attitude towards anti-smoking programmes: a study in Flanders, Belgium. Eur J Dent Educ 2007;11(3):177-83.
14. Yip JK, Hay JL, Ostroff JS, Stewart RK, Cruz GD. Dental students' attitudes toward smoking cessation guidelines. J Dent Educ 2000;64(9):641-50.
15. Rikard-Bell G, Groenlund C, Ward J. Australian dental students' views about smoking cessation counseling and their skills as counselors. J Public Health Dent 2003;63:200-6.
16. Polychonopoulou A, Gatou T, Athanassouli T. Greek dental students' attitudes toward tobacco control programmes. Int Dent J 2004;54:119-25. (Pubitemid 39194119)
17. Pratima M, Sadichcha S. Tobacco cessation services in India: recent developments and the need for expansion. Indian J Cancer 2010;47: S69-S74.
18. Pizzo G, Licata ME, Piscopo MR, Coniglio MA, Pignato S, Davis JM. Attitudes of Italian dental and dental hygiene students toward tobacco-use cessation. Eur J Dent Educ 2010;14(1):17-25.
19. Shah M. Health professionals in tobacco control: evidence from Global Health Professional Survey (GHPS) of dental students in India. GHPS Fact Sheet. Geneva: World Health Organization, 2005.
20. Victoroff KZ, Dankulich-Huryn T, Haque S. Attitudes of incoming dental students toward tobacco cessation promotion in the dental setting. J Dent Educ 2004;68(5):563-8.