Table 4.
"Mark your level of agreement with following statements about teaching on tobacco smoking in medical schools"? Number and percentage of students responding as 'agree' or 'strongly agree'.
| Agree | Strongly agree | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Medical professionals play an important role on advising public/patients about smoking cessation? * | 382 (41.4) | 433 (47.0) |
| 2 | In clinical practice, tobacco smoking history should be routinely taken for every patient? * | 319 (34.6) | 533 (57.8) |
| 3 | All doctors should be competent to advise patients about, counseling & treatment of smoking cessation. ¶* | 351 (38.1) | 487 (52.8) |
| 4 | Medical professionals should be role models by being non-smokers to advice their patients smoking cessation. ¶* | 231 (25.1) | 490 (53.1) |
| 5 | All medical schools should have smoking cessation clinics with facilities for counseling, treatment & follow-up. ¶ | 362 (39.3) | 375 (40.7) |
| 6 | Smoking amongst medical teachers and students is a main obstacle in effectively implementing tobacco education. | 281 (30.5) | 362 (39.3) |
| 7 | The current curriculum teaches adequately about health effects of active and passive smoking. | 298 (32.3) | 122 (13.2) |
| 8 | The current curriculum teaches about clinical guidelines, tobacco cessation methods and its contraindications. | 258 (28.0) | 94 (10.2) |
| 9 | All medical colleges should teach the students about cessation, treatment & counseling for smoking. ¶* | 244 (26.5) | 306 (33.2) |
| 10 | Current curriculum teaches about tobacco smoking but not systematic integrated with other disciplines departments. | 326 (35.4) | 92 (10) |
| 11 | All medical colleges should include tobacco education as a separate module in their curriculum. | 295 (32.0) | 166 (18.0) |
¶these items were statistically significant according to ever smoker versus never smoker
* these items were statistically significant according to gender