Work factors and smoking cessation in nurses' aides: a prospective cohort study
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Work factors and smoking cessation in nurses' aides: a prospective cohort study
BACKGROUND The prevalence of smoking in nursing personnel remains high. The aim of this study was to identify work factors that predict smoking cessation among nurses' aides. METHODS Of 2720 randomly selected, Norwegian nurses' aides, who were smoking at least one cigarette per day when they completed a questionnaire in 1999, 2275 (83.6 %) completed a second questionnaire 15 months later. A w...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMC Public Health
سال: 2005
ISSN: 1471-2458
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-5-142