Attitudes towards a Complete Smoking Ban among Mental Health Hospital Employees in France
Journal: Archives of Nursing Practice and Care (Vol.1, No. 1)Publication Date: 2015-12-16
Authors : R de Beaurepaire P Rat N Hachimi N Benslimane F Djellil D Lafarge K Lalam AL Lavazais; R Molimard;
Page : 010-014
Keywords : Nurses; Staff; Cigarettes; Psychiatry; Harmfulness;
Abstract
Background: Incitements to smoking cessation in patients hospitalized in mental health settings should be an ethical commitment for the mental health staff. However, worldwide studies have shown that the mental health staff is often reluctant to the implementation of smoking bans, and that the psychological attitude of the nursing staff may even sometimes wreck the efforts to ban smoking. No studies have been made in France investigating the psychological attitudes of mental health employees towards a complete smoking ban.
Methods: A given day, all the employees in daily contact with patients were individually interviewed regarding their smoking habits, their psychological attitude towards a complete smoking ban, their opinion regarding the consequences of a complete smoking ban on the behavior of patients, and, for smokers, their willing to change their smoking habits in the eventuality of a complete ban.
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