Consejería breve para cesación del consumo de tabaco como estrategia de elección por profesionales de Atención Primaria de Salud de la comuna de Peñalolén

Abstract

Introduction: Smoking is one of the pandemics that affects the world’s population in a large pro-portion. One of the measures to control it is the application of smoking cessation counselling (SCC). Objective: To determine and evaluate the SCC technique most used by primary health care professio-nals in Peñalolén a commune of Santiago, Chile. Methodology: Cross-sectional observational study based on survey and clinical simulation in primary health care professionals. Results: Of the 39 parti-cipant professionals, 55.3% declared using brief counselling as SCC and 42.1% indicated they did not use any specific technique. Of the 13 professionals who participated in the clinical simulation, 50% included 5 or less of a total of 7 key aspects during the brief counselling. Conclusions: Brief smoking cessation counselling is the most used tobacco cessation counselling strategy by the professionals surveyed. Although not all key aspects are always considered when it is done.