Аннотация:
The study investigated the attitude of medical students to tobacco smoking (TS), their readiness for assistance to smokers on TS refusal with the analysis of changes in the polls of 2011 and 2015. 362 students (56 young men, 306 girls) of the IV – V courses of the medical faculty of the Chuvash State University were interrogated by means of the questionnaire of T. Tamaki et al. (2010). 12.5% of young men and 2.3% of girls smoked, 56.6% were subject to passive smoking. The vast majority opposed TS in society (97.2%), among doctors (89.5%), medical students (70.4%) and sick people (81.5%). 59.9% could explain in details the risk connected with TS to the future patients, 30.1% could really help them. In 2015 in comparison with 2011 the bigger number of students received information on harm of TS; the doctor would become an example for the patients wishing to stopTS; the number of smoking fathers and brothers in families of pupils decreased. However, indicators of passive smoking didn't change, and authentically more respondents supported freedom of TS among doctors and students. It indicates the searches of the new individual, psychological, educational and didactic approaches to prevention of TS among medical students, and also active and training methods of their education.
Ключевые слова:
tobacco smoking, medical students, attitude, smoking prevention