TY - JOUR
TI - Short-term impact of the EuroPean Accredited Curriculum on Tobacco
Treatment Training (EPACTT) program
AU - Peleki, Theodosia
AU - Girvalaki, Charis
AU - Lozano, Francisco and
AU - Radu-Loghin, Cornel
AU - Nguyen, Dominick
AU - Harutyunyan, Arusyak and
AU - Bakhturidze, George
AU - Trofor, Antigona
AU - Demin, Andrey
AU - Stoyka,
AU - Otto
AU - Tsiou, Chrysoula
AU - Papadakis, Sophia
AU - Vardavas,
AU - Constantine I.
AU - Behrakis, Panagiotis K.
JO - Tobacco Prevention and Cessation
PY - 2018
VL - 4
TODO - null
SP - null
PB - EU EUROPEAN PUBLISHING
SN - null
TODO - 10.18332/tpc/92484
TODO - smoking cessation; training; evidence-based practice; health care
professionals; knowledge; attitudes
TODO - INTRODUCTION The aim of this pilot study was to assess the short-term
effectiveness of the EuroPean Accredited Curriculum on Tobacco Treatment
Training intervention in improving health care providers' knowledge,
attitudes and self-efficacy related to tobacco dependence treatment.
METHODS A pre-post pilot study was conducted. The two-day training
intervention took place in Brussels in April 2016. Health care
professionals from six European countries (Russia, Ukraine, Georgia,
Armenia, Romania and Greece) were purposively invited to participate in
the study. Evaluation was performed before the intervention, immediately
after, and at approximately two months following the intervention.
Changes in outcomes of interest were examined before and after exposure
to the intervention program.
RESULTS In all, 47 health care professionals participated in the
training of which 40 completed the evaluation surveys. Significant
increases in providers' self-efficacy and perceived behavioral control
related to tobacco treatment delivery were documented immediately
following the training and at the 2 months follow-up. Significant
improvement in provider knowledge and attitudes were observed in some
items assessed.
CONCLUSIONS The results demonstrate that training is able to improve
provider self-efficacy related to tobacco treatment delivery in this
cross-national European sample of health care professionals. Additional
research is required to examine the generalizability of our findings.
ER -