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The European Journal of Public Health 2004 14(2):199-200; doi:10.1093/eurpub/14.2.199
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Smoking

Short report: Paediatricians' attitude towards counselling parents postpartum about their smoking behaviour

Wolfgang Hannöver1, Jochen René Thyrian1 and Ulrich John1

1 University of Greifswald, Medical Faculty, Institute of Epidemiology and Social Medicine, Greifswald, Germany

Background: To investigate the attitudes of paediatricians in private practice towards counselling smoking parents of infants on their smoking behaviour. Methods: Questionnaires were mailed to 188 eligible paediatricians in Mecklenburg-West Pommerania. Results: The response rate to this survey was 62%. With regard to risk factors, 54% of respondents counsel parents on the occasion of well-child visits. Around 89% grant Environmental Tobacco Smoke (ETS) a high priority with regard to counselling and 26% of respondents obtain smoking status from parents routinely. From the sample, 66% wish to be trained in a brief intervention for counselling in everyday practice. Conclusion: Smoking and ETS are seen as prominent health threats and paediatricians look for brief interventions to be used in clinical practice.

Keywords: brief counselling interventions, environmental tobacco smoke, paediatric practice, smoking

Received 2 September 2002. Accepted 10 January 2003.

* Correspondence: Dr. Wolfgang Hannöver, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-University Greifswald, Institute of Epidemiology and Social Medicine, Walther-Rathenau-Str. 48, D-17487 Greifswald, Germany, tel. +49 3834 867 709, fax +49 3834 867 701, e-mail: hannoeve{at}uni-greifswald.de


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