عوامل پیش بینی کننده موثر بر ترک سیگار در کارکنان سیگاری دانشگاه علوم پزشکی اردبیل

Title

Predictors of intention to quit smoking among hospital male staff

English Abstract

Abstract Smoking is the most preventable cause of premature death in the world. health system. Due to the great advances in health education, health care approach to identify factors associated with smoking cessation changed and models of health education emphasized, and most useful of them are transtheoretical model (TTM). This study examined predictors of smoking cessation among male staff in Ardebil hospitals. This descriptive-analytical study included a convenience sample of 200 current and former smokers Staff employed at four hospitals in city of Ardebil.The instruments included decisional balance scale, self-efficacy scale, processes of change scale (behavioral and experiential), and stages of change which self-reportly completed. Descriptive statistics analysis showed that 66.5percent of participant were located in earlier stage of change. Bivariate spearman correlations showed that self-efficacy and processes of change and decisional balance significantly correlate with stage of change. and ordinal regression revealed that expriential processes of change (β=0.067),self-efficacy (β=-0.059) and behavioral processes (β=0.027) were the strongest predictor of stage of change respectively. The study results revealed that increases in readiness to quit smoking were significantly predicted by mechanisms of self-efficacy and expriental process of change such as Environmental Reevaluation and behavioral process of change such as stimulus control and counter conditioning, which can lead to positive progress in stage of change in smokers.These results support the application of TTM for Smoking ceccation interventions and indicate that the procedure was very effective in improving Intention to quit Smoking among hospitals staff.

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