Table 5.
Attitude toward health care professionals’ ethical responsibility to warn smokers and pregnant women who smoke about harmful effects of smoking
| Resident physicians | Specialist physicians | Trainee nurses | Nurses with secondary education | Nurses with associate degree | Total | p* | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N (%) | N (%) | N (%) | N (%) | N (%) | N (%) | ||
| Health care professionals’ ethical responsibility is to warn the smokers of the harmful effects of smoking | |||||||
| Strongly agree | 1 (3.1) | 1 (3.1) | 3 (7.9) | 11 (4.4) | 2 (2.1) | 18 (3.6) | .044 |
| Agree | 0 (0.0) | 2 (2.6) | 0 (0.0) | 5 (2.0) | 1 (1.0) | 8 (1.6) | |
| Undecided | 0 (0.0) | 2 (2.6) | 8 (21.1) | 27 (10.8) | 9 (9.3) | 46 (9.3) | |
| Agree | 8 (25.0) | 13 (16.7) | 7 (18.4) | 62 (24.7) | 18 (18.6) | 108 (21.8) | |
| Strongly agree | 23 (71.9) | 60 (76.9) | 20 (52.6) | 146 (58.2) | 67 (69.1) | 316 (63.7) | |
| Health care professionals’ ethical responsibility is to warn pregnant women of the harmful effects smoking has on the fetus | |||||||
| Strongly agree | 0 (0.0) | 1 (3.1) | 0 (0.0) | 8 (3.2) | 2 (2.1) | 11 (2.2) | .334 |
| Agree | 1 (3.1) | 1 (3.1) | 0 (0.0) | 4 (1.6) | 2 (2.1) | 8 (1.6) | |
| Undecided | 0 (0.0) | 2 (2.6) | 0 (0.0) | 8 (3.2) | 4 (4.2) | 14 (2.8) | |
| Agree | 5 (15.6) | 5 (6.4) | 6 (15.4) | 49 (19.4) | 10 (10.4) | 75 (15.1) | |
| Strongly agree | 26 (81.3) | 69 (88.5) | 33 (84.6) | 183 (72.6) | 78 (81.3) | 389 (78.3) | |
| Total | 32 (100) | 78 (100) | 39 (100) | 251 (100) | 97 (100) | 497 (100) | |
*chi-square