A Investigation on Smoking Status of Medical Personnel and Related Knowledge and Attitudes Survey in Jiangsu Province

Objective To investigate the behavior,knowledge and attitudes of cigarette smoking among medical staff in Jiangsu Province.Methods By random sampling,we selected 3 035 medical staff from thirty medical and health institutions in six cities in 2009 for questionnaire interview.Results The overall rates of smoking and current smoking was 20.1% and 17.3% respectively.The mean of daily smoking was(12.7±8.8) cig/day.The mean score of the knowledge on smoking-related disease was 32.78±5.95.83.3% of the medical staff answered that there was completely or partially smoking-ban in their units,while only 44.6% of them thought the smoking-ban was well executed.The proportion of supporting smoking-ban in door was 70.1%.Factors influencing medical staff's attitudes to total smoking-ban in door were smoking status(OR=2.607,95%CI=2.046~3.321),the level of knowledge about cigarette(OR=1.694,95%CI=1.440~1.992) and the classification of medical and health institutions(OR1= 1.449,95%CI1=1.110~1.890;OR2=1.466,95%CI2=1.106~1.945).Conclusion The smoking behavior of medical staff should be forbidden and they should be trained to acquire the knowledge of how to control smoking and skill of stop smoking.