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RESEARCH ARTICLE

Views of Indian Dental Students on Tobacco Cessation Counseling and Their Skills as Counselors

V Jain, A Sharma, K Arora, M Jain, S Akhilandan, US Sohlot

Citation Information : Jain V, Sharma A, Arora K, Jain M, Akhilandan S, Sohlot U. Views of Indian Dental Students on Tobacco Cessation Counseling and Their Skills as Counselors. J Oral Health Comm Dent 2015; 9 (1):23-29.

DOI: 10.5005/johcd-9-1-23

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Published Online: 01-06-2016

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Abstract

Objectives

This study aimed to determine Indian dental students’ views on tobacco cessation counselling, their skills as counsellors and the barriers faced by them.

Methods

A questionnaire study was conducted among 182 dental students in dental colleges of Faridabad, India. Significant differences among responses and demographic variables were calculated using chi square test.

Results

Majority (62.1 percent) of the participants indicated willingness to counsel their patients about the effects of tobacco and planned to advise patients about tobacco cessation (90 percent) while 74.2 percent felt that tobacco cessation counselling by dentist would help patients to quit. A majority disagreed that giving tobacco cessation counselling is not a part of their role (78.1 percent) or that they did not consider tobacco cessation counselling a part of their role (74.8 percent). However, 53.3 percent agreed that they do not have sufficient training to provide tobacco cessation counseling.

Conclusion

Dental students did not show much confidence in providing tobacco cessation counselling despite their perception that tobacco users look forward to them for such counselling.


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