Learning to assist smokers through encounters with standardized patients: An innovative training for physicians in an Eastern European country
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Narine K. Movsisyan aff001; Varduhi Petrosyan aff001; Gohar Abelyan aff001; Ondrej Sochor aff002; Satenik Baghdasaryan aff003; Jean-François Etter aff004
Působiště autorů:
American University of Armenia, Gerald and Patricia Turpanjian School of Public Health, Yerevan, Armenia
aff001; International Clinical Research Center, St. Anne’s University Hospital Brno, Brno, Czech Republic
aff002; Yerevan State Medical University, Department of Postgraduate and Continuing Medical Education, Yerevan, Armenia
aff003; Institute of Global Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, Campus Biotech, Geneva, Switzerland
aff004
Vyšlo v časopise:
PLoS ONE 14(9)
Kategorie:
Research Article
doi:
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0222813
Souhrn
Objectives
A lack of physician training is a major obstacle for effective tobacco dependence treatment. This study assessed the feasibility of an active learning training program and its effects on smoking cessation counselling skills of medical residents in Armenia, an Eastern European country with high smoking prevalence.
Study design
The study used a pre-post assessment of smoking cessation counselling activities and a course evaluation survey to assess the feasibility of the intervention in a different environment.
Methods
We adapted an active learning training model developed in Switzerland. Residents were trained in Yerevan, Armenia, using video-taped counselling sessions, role plays, standardized patients (actors), group discussions and immediate feedback. The training evaluation was done using a semi-structured anonymous questionnaire. The study assessed the physicians’ self-reported smoking cessation counselling activities before and 6 months after the training. A non-parametric Mann-Whitney test was used to assess pre-post differences in physicians’ counselling skills measured on ordinal scale.
Results
Of the 37 residents trained, 75% were female, 89% aged 20–29 years and 83% were never-smokers. Twenty-eight trainees (76%) returned the course evaluation survey and 32 (86%) answered a questionnaire on skills self-assessment at 6 months follow-up. The majority agreed the course was successful in achieving its learning objectives (64%-96%) and increased their confidence in assisting their patients to quit (74%). After 6 months, the physicians were more likely than at baseline to adhere to evidence-based counselling strategies, including assessing the smoking status and dependence and matching the advice to the patient motivation. The training did not, however, improve the prescription of tobacco dependence medications.
Conclusions
Six months after the training, several self-reported smoking cessation counselling activities had significantly improved compared to baseline. This training model is acceptable for medical residents in Yerevan, Armenia and offers a promising approach in addressing the lack of physician counselling skills in similar settings and populations.
Klíčová slova:
Cardiology – Drug therapy – Europe – Patients – Physicians – Questionnaires – Smoking habits – Armenia
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