Abstract
Abstract
Objectives: To improve the ability of healthcare professionals in the psychiatry department to help patients
quit smoking, thereby promoting abstention from smoking in psychiatric patients, we developed a support
evaluation-item scale and examined its efficacy based on the results of support evaluation-item scale
implementation in a model hospital.
Methods: The development of the support evaluation-item scale involved self-monitoring by staff (i.e.
healthcare professionals), discrimination, and assessment feedback from researchers, in order to strengthen
the evaluation-item scale implementation activities. A randomized control design was used to group
participants at the model hospital into two groups (baseline group and intervention group). The test period
was 4 weeks for each group (total of 8 weeks). The number of participants in the intervention group was 10,
while that of the baseline group was 11. A questionnaire survey was conducted in each group during the
corresponding test period, and data (outcome indexes) were collected.
Results: The evaluation-item scale implementation activity level was significantly increased in the
intervention group. The satisfaction level gained from implementation of the support evaluation-item items
was also increased in the intervention group.
Conclusion: This evaluation-item scale is effective in enhancing the activity level associated with the
support evaluation-item that helps patients to quit smoking, and also in increasing the satisfaction levels
of support items. It was suggested that integration of environmental assessment for the evaluation-item scale
continuity would be necessary in future.
