The Study on Doctors’ Smoking Status and the Countermeasures of Doctors Smoking Control in a Third Grade General Hospital in Shandong Province

Abstract

The objective of this paper is to investigate the behavior of doctors smoking and smoking control situation, and to analyze the reasons of doctors smoking. According to the reasons, put forward practical and feasible measures and provide scientific basis for tobacco control, for doctor’s own smoking cessation activities, for doctors’ advises to patients to quit smoking and for smoke-free hospital being successfully realized. The qualitative and quantitative research methods were used. 220 doctors from a big (3A) general hospital were selected for the investigation and 6 doctors of different departments were interviewed at the same time. General descriptive, chi-square test and other statistical methods were used for statistical analysis. There were significant differences in gender and age distribution of doctors smoking. The impact of tobacco on them selves, the knowledge of the relationship between tobacco and disease were differences in the doctors smoking,ex-smoking or no-smoking. Doctors’ self-control ability,the knowledge of the smoking control all have impacts on smoking control in hospital. Middle-aged male doctors were the “main force†of smokers; the doctors’ knowledge of substances in tobacco and its effect on health, and the knowledge of the relationship between tobacco and diseases had a certain deviation. Doctors’ self-control was not strong in actual smoking control action; there were resistances in the implementation process in hospital smoking control. For the current smoking status, the solutions are to set up smoking cessation clinics, to strengthen the smoking control interventions, to propagate and learn the knowledge of smoking-related diseases,to establish and improve the reward and punishment system, to train the doctors self-control and so on. The government and the hospital should work together to overcome and promote the smoking control in hospital.