Nursing Interventions on Tobacco Control: an Integrative Review

Abstract

Introduction: Tobacco addiction is considered a serious public health problem and the nurse has got a very important role in the design of strategies to control this disease. Objective: To identify nursing interventions related to tobacco control. Method: It is an integrative review. Articles and abstracts published between 2000 and 2010 were researched in the LILACS and MEDLINE databases, using the following keywords: enfermagem/tabagismo and tobacco/nursing; and articles published in the CINAHL databases between 2008 and 2010, using the keywords: tobacco/nursing/ intervention. Result: Following the strategies defined for the study, the search resulted in 1,394 publications. 55 publications were found in LILACS , 1,231 in MEDLINE and 108 in CINAHL databases. Of these productions, six full papers were selected from the Latin American and 119 from international databases, of which 16 were full articles from CINAHL and 103 from MEDLINE. The first review found that 1,269 publications were not specifically related to the research question or did not meet the proposed inclusion criteria, resulting in 125 productions that were finally considered for the study. The findings suggest a number of interventions provided by nurses for various audiences and that 39 of them were directed at smoking cessation. Conclusion: Faced to the productions evaluated, it was found that the nurse is a very important professional for tobacco addiction control and those interventions found show a relationship with the recommendations from scientific literature.