Table 4.
Physicians’ tobacco-related interventions with parents who smoke when child patients do not have respiratory diseases, overall and by tobacco-related medical education: Study conducted across all provinces in Canada in 2003.
| PROPORTION OF PHYSICIANS INTERVENING WITH ALL OR MOST PARENTS WHO SMOKE |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TOBACCO-RELATED MEDICAL EDUCATION |
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| INTERVENTION | OVERALL (N = 900) | CME (N = 279) | DURING MEDICAL TRAINING (N = 223) | NONE (N = 398) | CME vs DURING MEDICAL TRAINING, OR (95% CI)* | DURING MEDICAL TRAINING vs NONE, OR (95% CI)* |
| Advise cutting down on or quitting smoking | 45.7 | 54.1 | 44.4 | 36.9 | 2.00 (1.35–2.97)† | 1.43 (1.00–2.04)† |
| Give assistance to quit smoking (eg, set a quit date) | 15.7 | 23.1 | 18.4 | 8.6 | 1.17 (0.72–1.91) | 1.85 (1.05–3.23)† |
| Recommend the use of nicotine replacement therapy or bupropion | 11.9 | 18.2 | 10.3 | 8.4 | 1.71 (1.01–3.12)† | 0.84 (0.43–1.61) |
| Follow up on parents’ quit progress | 13.4 | 20.4 | 11.2 | 9.0 | 1.78 (1.01–3.14)† | 1.22 (0.65–2.28) |
| Discuss the effects of SHS | 43.6 | 50.2 | 38.1 | 42.0 | 1.73 (1.16–2.57)† | 1.03 (0.70–1.52) |
CI—confidence interval, CME—continuing medical education, OR—odds ratio, SHS—second-hand smoke.
*
Cochran-Mantel-Haenszel OR and 95% CI controlled for involvement in tobacco control and physician specialty.
†
Statistically significant, P < .05.