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Objective: To determine what patients and practitioners think about dentists providing tobacco cessation services (TCS).
Design: Questionnaire survey during a randomised controlled trial to improve TCS.
Intervention: A self-administered questionnaire to 53 dental practices in Alberta, Canada with a telephone survey of a random sample of patients attending these practices.
Outcome measures: Frequencies were used to determine distribution of responses and attitudes were measured on a 3-point scale (comfortable/neutral/not comfortable).
Results: Ninety-eight per cent of the dental practices responded and 85.1% of the patients were interviewed. Overall 58.5% of patients thought that their dentist should offer TCS whereas 61.5% of dentists thought that patients did not expect such services. A higher percentage (69.6%) of younger patients (15–24 years) thought TCS should not be offered. There were minor differences between users and non-users of tobacco.
Conclusion: Most patients believed that dental practices should offer tobacco cessation services but most practitioners did not.
Campbell HS, Sletten M, Petty T. Patient perceptions of tobacco cessation services in dental offices. J Am Dental Assoc 1999; 130:219–226
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Address for reprints: Dr. HS Campbell, Centre for Behavioural Research and Program Evaluation, National Institute of Canada, University of Waterloo, 200 University Avenue, West Waterloo, Ontario N21 3G1, Canada.
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John, J. Patients expect dentists to give them advice to quit tobacco use. Evid Based Dent 3, 16 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.ebd.6400091
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