Research view
Title: | Motivational interviewing for smoking cessation in patients with cardiac diseases |
Author: | Tarek A. Okasha, Sorayia R. Abd El Fatah, Nevein M. El Ashry, Mahmoud M. Elhabiby, Samah A. El Wahed Ahmed, Wafaa O. Abd El Fatah Abd Elhady, Dalia A. Mahmoud Morsy and Michael Elnemais Fawzy |
Abstract: |
Background
Motivational therapy for smoking cessation given to patients with cardiac disease has a
reinforcing role that decreases smoking related precedent heath, social and financial
burdens.
Aim
The aim of this study was to assess the therapeutic effect of motivational interviewing
sessions on the smoking course and quitting success rates in cardiac patients
compared with patients who did not receive the sessions.
Patients and methods
Our study was carried out on 120 smokers with cardiac diseases at the rehabilitation clinic;
patients were divided into an experimental group of 60 patients who received motivational
interviewing sessions while monitoring their smoking severity in the pre, post and follow-up
sessions and another 60 matched controls who received a single advice on cessation
treatment; both groups were assessed in the pre, post and follow-up session periods.
A sociodemographic sheet, the Decisional Balance Scale, the Fagerstro¨m Test for Nicotine
Dependence, the Readiness to Change Questionnaire, the Stress Test Questionnaire, and
the Stress Management technique Questionnaire were used.
Results
Heart attack episodes were decreased in the experimental group by 50% after
intervention with higher ‘high motivation’ to quit (98.33 and 91.66% in post and followup,
respectively) compared with the preintervention period (1.67%). In the pre and
follow-up periods, very low nicotine dependence was reported in 86.67 and 91.67% of
the experimental group, respectively, compared with 8.33% in preintervention period.
Also, 91.67% of the experimental group stopped smoking successfully in the follow-up
period compared with 45% of the control group.
Conclusion
Using motivational techniques can encourage patients to quit smoking with less stress
and can increase self-efficacy of patients.
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Journal: | Middle East Current Psychiatry 2017, 24:1–7 |
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