Table 2 Attitudes toward harmful effects of smoking
From: Prevalence, habits and personal attitudes towards smoking among health care professionals
Resident physicians | Specialist physicians | Trainee nurses | Nurses with secondary education | Nurses with associate degree | Total | p* | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
N (%) | N (%) | N (%) | N (%) | N (%) | N (%) | ||
Smoking is harmful to health | |||||||
Strongly disagree | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 4 (1.6) | 1 (1.0) | 5 (1.0) | .004 |
Disagree | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 14 (5.5) | 2 (2.1) | 16 (3.2) | |
Undecided | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 1 (2.6) | 18 (7.1) | 4 (4.1) | 23 (4.6) | |
Agree | 0 (0.0) | 5 (6.4) | 8 (20.5) | 35 (13.8) | 11 (11.3) | 59 (11.8) | |
Strongly agree | 32 (100) | 73 (93.6) | 30 (76.9) | 182 (71.9) | 79 (81.4) | 396 (79.4) | |
Second-hand smoking is harmful to health | |||||||
Strongly disagree | 0 (0.0) | 1 (1.3) | 1 (2.6) | 8 (3.2) | 1 (1.0) | 11 (2.2) | .008 |
Disagree | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 1 (2.6) | 15 (5.9) | 3 (3.1) | 19 (3.8) | |
Undecided | 1 (3.1) | 2 (2.6) | 1 (2.6) | 22 (8.8) | 10 (10.3) | 36 (7.2) | |
Agree | 4 (12.5) | 12 (15.4) | 10 (25.6) | 63 (25.1) | 14 (14.4) | 103 (20.7) | |
Strongly agree | 27 (84.4) | 63 (80.8) | 26 (66.7) | 143 (56.9) | 69 (71.1) | 328 (66.0) | |