GHPSS multicenter Italian survey: Smoking prevalence, knowledge and attitudes, and tobacco cessation training among third-year medical students

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Volumn 99, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 17-22

  Saulle, Rosella ^a   Bontempi, Claudio ^a   Baldo, Vincenzo ^b   Boccia, Giovanni ^c   Bonaccorsi, Guglielmo ^d   Brusaferro, Silvio ^e   Donato, Francesco ^f   Firenze, Alberto ^g   Gregorio, Pasquale ^h   Pelissero, Gabriele ⁱ   Sella, Alberto ^j   Siliquini, Roberta ^k   Boccia, Antonio ^a   La Torre, Giuseppe ^a,l  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SALERNO   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF UDINE   (Italy)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BRESCIA   (Italy)

^g UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

^h UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^j UNIVERSITY OF INSUBRIA   (Italy)

^k Department of Public Health and Microbiology ^*  (Italy)

^l Eleonora Lorillard Spencer Cenci Foundation   (Italy)

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Author keywords

Global Health Professions Student Survey; Smoking; Tobacco use

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; ITALY; MALE; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL STUDENT; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; REVIEW; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; TRAINING; ARTICLE; CURRICULUM; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; METHODOLOGY; MULTICENTER STUDY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; RISK; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CURRICULUM; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, UNDERGRADUATE; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; ITALY; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ODDS RATIO; PHYSICIAN'S ROLE; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; STUDENTS, MEDICAL;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84878153811     PISSN: 03008916     EISSN: 20382529     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1700/1248.13782     Document Type: Review

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