caa a22 4500 477113230 CHVBK 20180405111615.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170330e19960501xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF01305385 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF01305385 Smoking habits of future physicians: A survey among medical students of a South German university [Elektronische Daten] [Hermann Brenner, Sigrid Scharrer] Summary: Physicians can play a key role in promoting abstinence from tobacco. In many european countries, however, a large proportion of physicians are still smoking themselves. To assess smoking habits of future physicians, a cross-sectional study was conducted in 1992/1993 among 817 students enrolled in the first, third, and fifth years of medical school at the university of Ulm, Germany, using a self-administered questionnaire. The overall participation rate was 85.2%. Prevalence of current smoking was 17.6% among female participants and 29.2% among male participants. Among male students, smoking prevalence varied between 22.9% in the first year and 34.6% in the fifth year of medical school. Among female students, there were only minor differences in smoking prevalence between the first, third and fifth years at medical school. Most of the smokers had started to smoke prior to entry into medical school. Among third and fifth year students, slightly more students quit smoking than started to smoke during medical school, and smokers in the fifth year of medical school were more frequently willing to quit than smokers in the first and third year. Factors associated with regular smoking of medical students, after adjustment for potential confounders in multivariable analysis, were age, sex, and maternal smoking. While smoking prevalence was somewhat lower in the present study than in previous studies from Germany, further efforts are needed to reduce smoking among future physicians in this country. Birkhäuser Verlag Basel, 1996 Brenner Hermann Department of Epidemiology, University of Ulm, D-89069, Ulm, Germany aut Scharrer Sigrid Department of Epidemiology, University of Ulm, D-89069, Ulm, Germany aut Sozial- und Präventivmedizin Birkhäuser-Verlag 41/3(1996-05-01), 150-157 0303-8408 41:3<150 1996 41 38 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01305385 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01305385 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Brenner Hermann Department of Epidemiology, University of Ulm, D-89069, Ulm, Germany aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Scharrer Sigrid Department of Epidemiology, University of Ulm, D-89069, Ulm, Germany aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Sozial- und Präventivmedizin Birkhäuser-Verlag 41/3(1996-05-01), 150-157 0303-8408 41:3<150 1996 41 38 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer