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Objective: To determine the test-retest reliability of a new questionnaire designed to assess the attitude of students in a Nigerian dental school to tobacco cessation services. Materials and Methods: A self-administered questionnaire was administered twice at 4 weeks interval to the same set of final year dental students (N = 36) in one of the Nigerian dental schools. Ten questions were randomly selected from the 35-item questionnaire. Intra-class correlation (ICC) coefficients at 95confidence interval were computed for each selected item and the Cronbach's alpha coefficients were calculated to assess the internal consistency of the questionnaire. Results: The results showed that the least Cronbach's alpha value was 0.49 and the highest was 0.98. Only two items had less than a substantial agreement level (0.60) and seven items had an almost perfect agreement level (0.80). The results also indicated that the ICC coefficient is very highly statistically significant (P 0.001). Conclusion: The questionnaire demonstrated adequate test-retest reliability to assess the attitude of dental students to tobacco cessation services
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Attitude , Reproducibility of Results , Students , Surveys and Questionnaires , Tobacco Use CessationABSTRACT
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Attitude of Health Personnel , Tobacco Smoking , Tobacco Smoking/epidemiology , Tobacco Use Cessation , Tobacco Use DisorderABSTRACT
Les cancers buccaux sont dans 95% des cas des carcinomes epidermoides; dont le taux de mortalite est non negligeable. Les principaux facteurs de risque sont le tabac; l'alcool; le mauvais etat bucco-dentaire; les facteurs viraux (HPV) (1;2). De ce fait; l'arret du tabac est primordial non seulement pour prevenir la survenue d'un cancer buccal mais egalement pour le succes du traitement; car le tabagisme deteriore l'efficacite de la chimiotherapie ainsi que les therapies ciblees (Notamment la diminution de l'efficacite et l'augmentation du taux de complications). Nous proposons a travers cet article un programme personnalise de sevrage dont le protocole sera fonction du degre du tabagisme. Le medecin dentiste en adoptant une strategie de prise en charge; aura pour role d'assurer un confort du sevrage tabagique des patients en limitant les effets indesirables de l'arret du tabac