Factors influencing tobacco use treatment patterns among Vietnamese health care providers working in community health centers

Table 2 Attitudes, self-efficacy, norms and practice patterns related to treating tobacco use

Constructs	N (%) Agree/Strongly agree	Mean (SD)
Attitudes ^a
Offering smoking cessation treatment to my patients is part of my job.	116 (86.6)	3.30 (.78)
Most smokers don’t want to quit.	94 (70.1)	2.98 (.99)
Smoking cessation counseling is not a priority to me.	71 (53.0)	2.40 (.96)
Advice from a doctor or nurse is one of the best ways to help people stop smoking.	129 (96.3)	3.75 (.54)
Patients appreciate it when I provide smoking cessation counseling.	111 (82.8)	3.2 (.77)
Self-efficacy ^b
I am confident in my ability to help patients stop smoking.	117 (87.3)	3.22 (.78)
I have the training I need to help smokers quit.	39 (29.1)	1.93 (1.06)
I am not aware of the best treatments for helping patients stop smoking.	80 (60.2)	2.64 (1.03)
Norms ^c
Most of the staff think that promoting smoking cessation is part of their job	120 (89.6)	3.40 (.73)
My supervisors think that helping smokers quit is a priority.	112 (83.6)	3.23 (.76)
Practice patterns (in past 3 months)*	Half or more patients
Ask about tobacco use	31 (23.1)
Advise to quit	32 (33.0)
Assess readiness to quit	14 (14.4)
Assist**	8 (8.3)

^aCronbach’s alpha = 0.32, ^bCronbach’s alpha = 0.27, ^cCronbach’s alpha = 0.42.
*4 point likert scale included: none, few, half, more than half or all or most.
**Assisted is defined as referring patients for counseling and/or prescribing cessation pharmacotherapy.

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