Table 1.
Characteristics of health care providers sampled: Survey data were received from 288 of 438 (65.8%) clinicians who saw patients during one of the assessment periods. Data were missing for those intake clinicians who were employed as “floating” staff (or locums) and those clinicians who did not return surveys after 3 reminders.
| CHARACTERISTIC | VALUE |
|---|---|
| Type of provider, % | |
| • Practising physician | 80.7 |
| • Medical resident | 5.0 |
| • Nurse practitioner | 12.7 |
| Mean (SD) age, y | 39.5 (17.3) |
| Participated in smoking cessation training in the past, % | 33.0 |
| Importance placed on smoking cessation within FHT, % | |
| • Extremely important | 56.0 |
| • Very important | 26.3 |
| • Important | 15.1 |
| • Somewhat important | 2.3 |
| • Not important | 0.4 |
| Self-reported importance placed on helping patients quit smoking, % | |
| • Extremely important | 51.3 |
| • Very important | 37.2 |
| • Important | 8.5 |
| • Somewhat important | 12.1 |
| • Not important | 0.0 |
| Mean (SD) self-efficacy* | |
| • Advising patients to quit | 8.8 (1.4) |
| • Providing brief counseling | 8.3 (1.6) |
| • Prescribing medications | 8.3 (1.6) |
| • Setting quit dates | 7.6 (1.9) |
| • Providing extended counseling to quit | 7.5 (1.8) |
| • Arranging follow-up support | 6.9 (2.2) |
FHT—family health team.
*
On a scale of 1 to 10, how would you describe your confidence in the following areas, 1 being not very confident and 10 being extremely confident?