AIM: In this study, it was aimed to determine physicians' smoking cessation behaviors, and related factors.
METHOD: This cross-sectional study was conducted between September-October of 2011. During this period 711 physicians has been working in provincial center, we planned to reach 326 physicians using 50% prevalance of cessation behaviour, , standard deviation of 5% and %95 confidence level by stratified random sampling method. We reached 263 physicians (response rate was 81%). In this study was used a questionnaire includes descriptive characteristics of physicians, smoking status of them, approaches to smoking cessation in patients, opinions about patients' smoking cessation. In this study, descriptive statistics, chi-square and pearson correlation were used, and significancy level was accepted as p
Key words: Physician, smoking cessation behavior, related factors Article Language: Turkish English
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