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Nurse adherence to a minimal‐contact smoking cessation intervention on cardiac wards
Author(s) -
Segaar Dewi,
Willemsen Marc C.,
Bolman Catherine,
De Vries Hein
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
research in nursing and health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.836
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1098-240X
pISSN - 0160-6891
DOI - 10.1002/nur.20204
Subject(s) - smoking cessation , medicine , intervention (counseling) , psychological intervention , nursing , family medicine , health promotion , public health , pathology
Health promotion interventions are often underused by care practitioners and, therefore, are not effective. In this study, we assessed nurses' use of a smoking cessation intervention in Dutch cardiac wards and factors associated with their adherence. Ninety‐four of 206 nurses did not fully apply the intervention in daily practice; they did not always provide patients with self‐help guides, discuss smoking cessation aids, or provide follow‐up care. The significant factors in our integrated change model accounted for 52% of the variance in adherence. Adherence was most likely if nurses consistently used an intervention card, perceived advantages of the intervention, had other nurses around them who used it, and had been involved in decision‐making. © 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Res Nurs Health 30:429–444, 2007.