An international review of tobacco smoking research in the nursing profession, 1976-2006

摘要: Tobacco smoking represents a contentious issue in the nursing profession, and one that has now become an important topic research. Despite this fact, epidemiological quality of research varies widely, it been difficult to accurately determine true incidence among nurses. Given these inconsistencies, we conducted state-of-the-art review identify international trends tobacco usage nurses, ascertain how improved over past 30 years, also elucidate directions which evolved. A total 73 English-language studies met inclusion criteria were located analysed. Overall, our suggests that, while nurses appears be decreasing many countries during recent trend is far from uniform, some developed nations still report high rates their staff. From methodological perspective, relative fluctuated time, making compare results study next. caveats, remains key research, as well critically occupational-health for entire profession. In order make next generation data comparable possible, future scholars should consider devising implementing standardised format conducting within