NCT05374707

The Effect of Motivational Interviewing Technique on Smoking Urge and Smoking Cessation Success in Teachers

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 61 (actual)
• Sponsor: Celal Bayar University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: —
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Background: Smoking, which remains one of the biggest public health threats that the world faces and has reached epidemic proportions, continues to cause more than eight million deaths on average per year worldwide. The aim of the study was to evaluate the effect of motivational interviewing technique on the smoking urge and the success of smoking cessation in teachers. Methods: This was an experimental (randomized controlled) study where motivational interviews were conducted with the individuals in the experimental group. The sample of the study was chosen from the teachers, who met the inclusion criteria, in the secondary schools in the central districts of Manisa. The study was completed with 30 smokers in the experimental group and 31 smokers in the control group. Questionnaire on Smoking Urges, Smoking Cessation Success Prediction Scale and Sociodemographic Data Form were used as data collecting tools. Chi-square test, Mann-Whitney U test, Wilcoxon test, t-test and regression analysis were used to analyse the data.

Conditions

• Smoking
• Motivational Interviewing
• School Health
• Nursing

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	MOTIVATIONAL INTERVIEWING	Motivational interviewing is a form of interview conducted with a patient-centered approach in order to enable people to discover and solve the obstacles to behavior change.

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-04-12
• Primary completion: 2021-08-01
• Completion: 2021-11-01
• First posted: 2022-05-16
• Last updated: 2022-05-16

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Turkey (Türkiye)