Why Do Physicians Lack Engagement with Smoking Cessation Treatment in Their COPD Patients? A Multinational Qualitative Study

Overview

Journal NPJ Prim Care Respir Med

Specialties Public Health
Pulmonary Medicine

Date 2017 Jun 25

PMID 28646217

Citations 33

Authors

Eva Anne Marije van Eerd

Mette Bech Risor

Mark Spigt

Maciek Godycki-Cwirko

Elena Andreeva

Nick Francis

Anja Wollny

Hasse Melbye

Onno Van Schayck

Daniel Kotz

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Abstract

Chronic Lung Disease: CHANGING ATTITUDES TO HELP PATIENTS STOP SMOKING: Doctors should be given careful, ethically-informed guidance during medical training to help them to support patients to quit smoking. The most important part of treatment for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is help to stop smoking. However, there is evidence to suggest that doctors don't always motivate COPD patients to quit. Eva Anne Marije van Eerd at Maastrict University, The Netherlands, together with an international team of scientists, conducted focus group interviews with doctors in seven different countries to assess barriers to smoking cessation. They found that doctors' frustration with and negative attitudes towards patients who continued to smoke contributed to poor cessation management and treatment inequalities in some cases. Many doctors also cited a lack of experience with smoking cessation techniques alongside time and money issues as barriers to effective treatment.

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