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Medical education and training
Original research
Empowering healthcare providers through smoking cessation training in Malaysia: a preintervention and postintervention evaluation on the improvement of knowledge, attitude and self-efficacy
  1. Siti Idayu Hasan1,2,
  2. Farizah Mohd Hairi1,2,
  3. Nur Amani Ahmad Tajuddin2,3,
  4. Amer Siddiq Amer Nordin2,4
  1. 1 Social & Preventive Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
  2. 2 Nicotine Addiction Research & Collaboration, UMCAS, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
  3. 3 Primary Care Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
  4. 4 Psychological Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
  1. Correspondence to Dr Farizah Mohd Hairi; farizah{at}um.edu.my

Abstract

Objectives Healthcare providers are ideally positioned to advise their patients to quit smoking by providing effective smoking cessation intervention. Thus, we evaluate the effectiveness of a 1-day training programme in changing the knowledge, attitude and self-efficacy of healthcare providers in smoking cessation intervention.

Methods A prepost study design was conducted in 2017. The 8-hour Smoking Cessation Organising, Planning and Execution (SCOPE) training comprised lectures, practical sessions and role-play sessions to 218 healthcare providers. A validated evaluation tool, Providers’ Smoking Cessation Training Evaluation, was administered to assess the impact of training on knowledge, attitude and self-efficacy on smoking cessation intervention.

Results After SCOPE training, the knowledge score increased significantly from 7.96±2.34 to 10.35±1.57 (p<0.001). Attitude and self-efficacy in smoking cessation intervention also increased significantly from 34.32±4.12 to 37.04±3.92 (p<0.001) and 40.31±8.61 to 54.67±7.45 (p<0.001) respectively. Pretraining and post-training scores improved significantly for all professions, and each measure, particularly self-efficacy.

Conclusion This study demonstrates that SCOPE training could improve healthcare providers’ knowledge, attitude and self-efficacy on smoking cessation intervention. Future training is recommended to equip healthcare providers with current knowledge, positive attitude and high self-efficacy to integrate what they have learned into practice successfully.

  • programme evaluation
  • smoking cessation
  • healthcare providers
  • knowledge
  • attitude
  • self-efficacy

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https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2019-030670

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    Footnotes

    • Contributors SIH was responsible for the study design, data collection, analysis and drafting of the manuscript. FMH was responsible for developing the training module, and supervising and reviewing manuscript. NAAT was involved with reviewing the manuscript. ASAN was responsible for developing the training module, and supervising and reviewing the manuscript, as well as investigating this study. All authors critically reviewed the manuscript and approved the final version.

    • Funding Grand Challenge Research Grant (GC004A-15HTM), Health & Wellbeing Research Cluster, Institute of Research Management & Monitoring, University of Malaya

    • Competing interests None declared.

    • Patient consent for publication Not required.

    • Ethics approval Medical Ethics Committee of the University of Malaya (Reference number: UM.TNC2/RC/H&E/UMREC-118) and the Ministry of Health Malaysia (Reference number: NMRR-16-2144-32353 (IIR)).

    • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed.

    • Data availability statement No data are available.