J Korean Acad Adult Nurs.  2005 Mar;17(1):139-148.

Barriers to Smoking Cessation Intervention among Clinical Nurses

• Shin SR
• Oh PJ

Abstract

PURPOSE
The specific aims of this study was to find out the barrier to smoking cessation intervention in clinical practice among clinical nurses and compare them in high barrier group with those in the low barrier group. METHOD: The sample of this study consisted of 738 nurses practicing in general hospitals with over 400 beds throughout the country. The questionnaire was adopted from the 'Oncology Nurse's Tobacco Control Survey' used in the United Stated by Sarna et al.(2001). RESULT: Age, marital status, hospital experience, position were the variables related to the mean score of subjective resource insufficiency. The perception that the patient was not motivated to quit smoking was the most commonly identified barrier in low barrier group and the second most common barrier in high barrier group. CONCLUSION: Younger, with less clinical experience, single, staff nurses were the characteristics of nurses in the high barrier group. The smoking cessation educational program should be targeted to these populations. Further research is needed to develope strategies to reduce the perception associated with barriers in delivery of tobacco cessation interventions.

Keyword

Smoking Cessation; Barrier; Nurse; Intervention

MeSH Terms

Hospitals, General
Humans
Marital Status
Smoke*
Smoking Cessation*
Smoking*
Tobacco
Tobacco Use Cessation
Surveys and Questionnaires
Smoke