Smoking behavior of hospital staff

Aim: Evaluation of preventive actions at hospital and to measure the implication level of the hospital staff in tobacco prevention. Methods: From 658 hospital staff, 629 (95,6%) were in working place in the time of study, 573 (91,1%) have fulfilled the questionnaire in correctly manner. The questionnaire was articulated in the group questions, the aim of which was to explore the behavior of hospital staff and the level of their perception related to the “tobacco” problem. Results: 22,5% of the hospital staff smoke. 6,2% smoke in presence of their patients, where the physicians make up the higher percentage (10,2%), in comparison of other healthcare workers (sanitary 5,6% and nurses 3,2%). 82,5% think that trying to convince people to stop smoking is part of their role; 90,2% consider that it has an exemplary role to play in front of patients. 93,4% have the right knowledge according to the damage of tobacco active use. Regarding to “World Day Without Tobacco” 66,1% thinks that this day is useful to rise the susceptibility on the problems related with tobacco using, 25% thinks that this day can help in making mindful the smoking people to leave it, 8,9% it is useless. Conclusion: This underlines the need and the necessity to realize anti-tobacco campaigns among health care population. Moreover since the exemplary role they have to play, is very well accepted, preventive actions could rely on a good level of participation.