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Smoking Cessation Education Needs As Reported By Current Smokers, Former Smokers, And Nurses, Ana Grynwald
Smoking Cessation Education Needs As Reported By Current Smokers, Former Smokers, And Nurses, Ana Grynwald
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Purpose: The purpose of this study was to determine if there is a difference in the importance of selected smoking cessation information to current smokers, former smokers, and nurses in the Appalachian population. There were no instruments found in the literature to assess the perceptions of educational content for smoking cessation, therefore, a Smoking Cessation Education (SCE) survey was developed to measure the perceptions. The conceptual framework for this study was based on the Health Belief Model developed by psychologists Drs. Godfrey M. Hochbaum, S. Stephen Kegeles, Howard Leventhal, and Irwin M. Rosenstock..
Design: The SCE is a ten question …