Table 3.
Student health professionals’ views about health professionals being ‘role models’ and their role in advising about smoking cessation by WHO regions
| WHO regions | Think that health professionals serve as ‘role models’ for their patients and the public | Think that health professionals have a role in giving advice or information about smoking cessation to the patients | ||||
| Total | Male | Female | Total | Male | Female | |
| Medicine* | Medicine* | |||||
| AFRO | 70.5 (59.1 to 81.9) | 70.9 (58.9 to 82.9) | 68.4 (55.6 to 81.2) | 94.1 (88.9 to 99.3) | 92.7 (86.2 to 99.2) | 93.0 (86.7 to 99.4) |
| EMRO | 76.2 (72.3 to 80.1) | 73.8 (69.5 to 78.0) | 77.8 (73.5 to 82.1) | 89.8 (87.0 to 92.7) | 89.3 (86.1 to 92.5) | 90.3 (87.4 to 93.2) |
| EURO | 65.9 (58.5 to 73.4) | 63.2 (55.5 to 71.0) | 67.5 (59.8 to 75.3) | 84.8 (81.4 to 88.1) | 85.1 (81.9 to 88.3) | 88.1 (85.0 to 91.1) |
| AMRO | 78.6 (72.5 to 84.7) | 78.6 (72.5 to 84.7) | 78.9 (72.6 to 85.2) | 95.1 (92.6 to 97.6) | 94.6 (92.1 to 97.2) | 95.3 (92.7 to 97.9) |
| SEARO | 86.1 (79.7 to 92.5) | 86.8 (78.8 to 94.7) | 86.5 (81.2 to 91.8) | 94.5 (91.9 to 97.1) | 93.0 (89.6 to 96.5) | 95.6 (93.7 to 97.5) |
| WPRO | 84.1 (65.4 to 102.7) | 80.9 (58.6 to 103.2) | 90.3 (81.5 to 99.1) | 96.0 (90.1 to 102.0) | 90.6 (88.1 to 93.2) | 97.8 (96.1 to 99.6) |
| Dentistry* | Dentistry* | |||||
| AFRO | 73.6 (49.1 to 98.0) | 62.2 (52.8 to 71.5) | 72.6 (53.6 to 91.7) | 89.5 (74.3 to 104.6) | 82.9 (61.3 to 104.5) | 87.1 (81.5 to 92.6) |
| EMRO | 76.4 (70.7 to 82.0) | 74.8 (67.9 to 81.7) | 77.3 (71.2 to 83.5) | 89.5 (86.3 to 92.7) | 89.6 (85.7 to 93.4) | 91.0 (88.1 to 94.0) |
| EURO | 72.8 (64.8 to 80.8) | 68.5 (59.7 to 77.4) | 75.2 (66.7 to 83.7) | 83.8 (79.7 to 87.9) | 82.4 (77.4 to 87.4) | 83.5 (79.4 to 87.5) |
| AMRO | 78.8 (71.5 to 86.2) | 79.5 (72.7 to 86.2) | 76.8 (70.2 to 83.4) | 88.2 (82.7 to 93.7) | 88.8 (83.1 to 94.4) | 88.5 (82.7 to 94.2) |
| SEARO | 90.1 (85.3 to 94.9) | 87.4 (79.6 to 5.1) | 90.2 (84.4 to 96.0) | 93.4 (91.3 to 95.6) | 90.6 (87.2 to 94.0) | 95.4 (94.2 to 96.6) |
| WPRO | 14.4 (8.6 to 20.2) | 14.7 (2.8 to 26.6) | 14.3 (7.6 to 21.0) | 78.4 (71.6 to 85.3) | 79.4 (65.8 to 93.0) | 78.1 (70.2 to 86.0) |
| Nursing* | Nursing* | |||||
| AFRO | 72.5 (56.3 to 88.8) | 76.0 (62.2 to 89.8) | 65.9 (58.1 to 73.8) | 97.2 (95.3 to 99.1) | 98.6 (97.2 to 100) | 96.7 (94.1 to 99.2) |
| EMRO | 76.2 (72.3 to 80.1) | 73.8 (69.5 to 78.0) | 77.8 (73.5 to 82.1) | 91.4 (88.7 to 94.0) | 89.8 (86.4 to 93.2) | 92.1 (89.5 to 94.6) |
| EURO | 71.5 (61.2 to 81.9) | 67.2 (56.8 to 77.5) | 72.3 (60.6 to 84.1) | 82.4 (77.0 to 87.9) | 84.5 (81.0 to 88.1) | 81.3 (75.3 to 87.2) |
| AMRO | 76.3 (70.1 to 82.6) | 75.6 (67.6 to 83.5) | 76.7 (70.3 to 83.0) | 93.8 (91.6 to 96.1) | 93.6 (90.0 to 97.3) | 93.7 (91.4 to 96.1) |
| SEARO | 90.0 (83.7 to 96.3) | 87.7 (80.2 to 95.2) | 87.7 (80.6 to 94.7) | 96.0 (93.9 to 98.1) | 92.0 (85.6 to 98.4) | 96.4 (94.3 to 98.4) |
| WPRO | 72.8 (48.0 to 97.6) | 78.6 (51.5 to 105.8) | 71.4 (44.9 to 98.0) | 92.4 (86.6 to 98.3) | 82.2 (67.7 to 96.8) | 93.1 (87.6 to 98.6) |
| Pharmacy* | Pharmacy* | |||||
| AFRO | 67.3 (51.8 to 82.8) | 68.0 (52.6 to 83.4) | 63.1 (58.1 to 8.1) | 93.6 (86.2 to 101.0) | 87.2 (73.4 to 101.0) | 92.5 (81.5 to 103.5) |
| EMRO | 75.5 (68.2 to 82.9) | 73.4 (65.3 to 81.4) | 76.3 (68.6 to 84.0) | 89.7 (86.1 to 93.3) | 87.6 (82.7 to 92.6) | 91.0 (87.6 to 94.4) |
| EURO | 65.1 (55.0 to 75.2) | 63.2 (52.5 to 73.9) | 65.2 (54.6 to 75.9) | 81.1 (76.1 to 86.2) | 79.4 (72.3 to 86.5) | 82.7 (77.1 to 88.3) |
| AMRO | 75.6 (66.2 to 85.0) | 74.3 (62.9 to 85.6) | 71.8 (63.4 to 80.2) | 92.8 (87.5 to 98.0) | 90.7 (84.8 to 96.5) | 93.6 (88.3 to 99.0) |
| SEARO | 87.6 (81.8 to 93.4) | 87.8 (82.5 to 93.2) | 86.9 (79.9 to 94.0) | 90.3 (86.0 to 94.6) | 93.2 (89.4 to 97.1) | 90.1 (84.2 to 95.9) |
| WPRO | 51.5 (−4.4 to 107.4) | 50.0 (0.3 to 99.6) | 52.1 (−5.6 to 109.8) | 95.6 (92.2 to 99.1) | 89.3 (80.1 to 98.5) | 95.0 (88.6 to 101.4) |
*For these the comparisons between six WHO regions (χ2 test) was significant, p<0.05.