Effects of a Smoking Cessation Counseling Education Program on Nursing Students

Abstract

This is a quasi-experimental study applying a nonequivalent control group pre-test–post-test design with the control of exogenous variables to compare the research variables among experimental groups. Participants totaled 67 and were divided into three groups, each participating in a different training program (lecture, online video, and case-based peer role-play). There were significant increases in attitudes toward smoking cessation interventions in Experiment 2 (online video) (t = −2.48, p =.021) and Experiment 3 (case-based peer role-play) (t = −2.69. p =.013), efficacy of smoking cessation interventions in Experiment 2 (−2.06, p =.052), and intention to deliver smoking cessation intervention in all experimental groups (Exp 1 t = −5.54, p