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Table 2 Provision of smoking assessment or cessation care

From: Health professional's perceptions of and potential barriers to smoking cessation care: a survey study at a dental school hospital in Japan

 

Overall (n = 93)

Dentist (n = 54)

Dental hygienist (n = 22)

Medical (n = 17)

Asking smoking status

66.9 (36.2)

68.5 (36.3)*

46.4 (32.3)

88.2 (27.2) **

Advise to quit

43.9 (36.5)

43.3 (36.4)

30.9 (25.6)

62.4 (42.8)*

Assess willingness to make a quit attempt

22.5 (28.3)

23.3 (28.9)

22.2 (23.1)

20.0 (33.5)

Assist in quit attempt

17.3 (25.2)

14.6 (21.0)

19.1 (21.6)

23.5 (39.0)

  1. Data were shown as mean % (SD)
  2. *p < 0.05, **p < 0.001, significantly different from dental hygienist; one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) with Tukey-Kramer multiple comparisons test