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What about vaping? Exploring the facilitators and barriers experienced by health professionals in offering vaping cessation support – a Scoping Review

Project Summary

We’re conducting a scoping review to explore what helps and hinders health professionals in offering vaping cessation support. Vape (e-cigarette) use has become a global public health problem. Currently, not much is known about what midwives, doctors, nurses, allied health clinicians, and complementary medicine practitioners know about the harms of vaping, how they discuss vaping with their patients, and how and if they provide vaping cessation support. This scoping review aims to integrate the information from published studies that examine health professionals’ vaping cessation support knowledge and experiences. It also aims to identify how things like knowledge, skills, professional role and identity, resources, and the clinical environment may help or hinder clinicians in helping their patients quit vaping.

This scoping review has been submitted for publication and is currently under review

Our Investigators

  • Ms Caroline Lincan Tan
  • Professor Megan Passey
  • Dr Jo Longman
  • Dr Larisa Barnes

Status/timing

We started this scoping review in August 2023 and will publish it in early 2024.

What did/does the Project do/focus on?

This project focuses on what assists and holds back clinicians from helping their patients to quit vaping. Vaping causes harm. The aerosols in vapes contain many poisonous compounds that cause damage to lungs and human cells. Vapes also usually contain nicotine which is very addictive and harmful to babies’ and teenagers’ developing brains. We became interested in vaping cessation support through our work on MOHMQuit, which is helping clinicians provide smoking cessation support to pregnant mothers. The rates of vaping in Australia have increased greatly and clinicians need to know how to help patients stop vaping. We want to help clinicians understand how to help their patients quit vaping, but first need to find out what needs to be done to address any barriers they face in helping their patients quit vaping.

What type of project/study?

This is a scoping review study. Scoping reviews map published literature on relatively new topics and identify gaps in research.

What do you expect to achieve with this project when complete?

We will publish the scoping review and share it with public health departments and health services, so that it can inform their policies and directives for increasing the provision of vaping cessation support in public health.

Who can be contacted for more information?

UCRH Research Fellow – Dr Larisa Barnes larisa.barnes@sydney.edu.au

Professor of Rural Health – Professor Megan Passey megan.passey@sydney.edu.au

Resources

This scoping review is registered here: https://osf.io/4j265

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