Abstract
The purpose of this narrative review is to synthesize the factors that are associated with smoking cessation intervention among nurses. We conducted a systematic search of the literature published from database inception through to 22 April 2020, in five electronic databases including Pubmed, CINAHL Plus, Scopus, Web of science, and ProQuest. The search was limited to articles written in English and published in scientific journals. The reference lists of papers identified as being relevant in the above electronic searches were also hand searched. The initial database search yielded 2039 articles and 11 articles were obtained through a manual search. Finally, 24 articles were included in the analysis. Of the 24 included studies, 46 different factors were identified to be significantly associated with nursing interventions for smoking cessation. The identified factors were grouped into the following four conceptually similar categories: (1) socioeconomic factors, (2) smoking-related factors, (3) motivational factors, and (4) enabling factors and barriers. In the future, nursing interventions for smoking cessation will need to be improved based on the identified factors.
Highlights
The tobacco epidemic is one of the biggest public health threats the world has ever faced, resulting in more than eight million deaths a year around the world
In light of this troubling fact, the international council of nurses (ICN) encourages member associations to co-ordinate their efforts with other national groups to bring government and public attention to the harmful health effects of tobacco and to encourage governments to reduce, discourage, and eliminate tobacco use, including providing access to cessation programs [2]
Of the identified sociodemographic factors, we found that female nurses [22,23,24,38], more experience years [30,37], advanced position [28,29,30,37], and working in an inpatient setting [28,29,35,37] were more likely to implement smoking cessation interventions
Summary
The tobacco epidemic is one of the biggest public health threats the world has ever faced, resulting in more than eight million deaths a year around the world. More than seven million of those deaths are the result of direct tobacco use, while around 1.2 million are the result of non-smokers being exposed to secondhand smoke [1]. In light of this troubling fact, the international council of nurses (ICN) encourages member associations to co-ordinate their efforts with other national groups to bring government and public attention to the harmful health effects of tobacco and to encourage governments to reduce, discourage, and eliminate tobacco use, including providing access to cessation programs [2]. Overall, nursing interventions for smoking cessation play an important role to help patients quit smoking successfully
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