Use of interactive teaching methods in tobacco cessation program and examine it by using objective structured clinical exam - Short Communication

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Background: Tobacco addiction is a critical public health issue, requiring health professionals to counsel tobacco users for cessation. Aim: Enhance MBBS students’ communication skills in counseling tobacco users through interactive teaching methods and evaluate the effect using OSCE. Materials and Methods: A before-and-after comparison study assessed communication skills using standardized patients and objective structured clinical examination, with training via role play, interactive sessions, and anecdotes. Statistical analysis used paired t-test. Results: Scores across stations and global scores improved significantly after intervention. Conclusion: Interactive methods improved counseling communication; similar models can support other health hazards.

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Short Communication Use of interactive teaching methods in tobacco cessation program and examine it by using objective structured clinical exam Kevin Fernandez, Harshal T. Pandve, Dhrubajyoti J. Debnath Department of Community Medicine, Smt. Kashibai Navale Medical College, Pune, Maharashtra, India ABSTRACT Background: Tobacco addiction is an important public health issue. It is important for health professional to counsel the tobacco users for cessation . Aim: To enhance communication skills of MBBS (Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery) students in counseling of tobacco users by using interactive teaching methods and examine it by using OSCE. Materials and Methods: It was a before and after comparison study. Communication skills of students were examined by standardized patients (investigators) by objective structured clinical examination (OSCE) method before and after intervention. All the students were trained to enhance the communication skills by role play, interactive session, anecdotes. Statistical analysis was done by using Paired t‑test. Results: The difference in scores at all the 3 stations before and after the intervention and also global scores before and after the intervention was statistically highly significant (P = 0.0001) . Conclusion and Recommendation: Communication skills of students in counseling tobacco users improved after they were given role play, interactive session, anecdotes. Similar model can be used to improve the communication/counseling skills in other important health hazards. Key words: Communication skills, counseling, medical students, objective structured clinical exam, tobacco users INTRODUCTION Tobacco is one of the leading causes of disease and death in the world. It is responsible for a range of respiratory, cardiovascular, and reproductive tract disorders, in addition Address for correspondence: Dr. Harshal Tukaram Pandve, Department of Community Medicine, Smt. Kashibai Navale Medical College, Narhe, Pune-411 041, Maharashtra, India. E-mail: [aircmdekevin@gmail.com](aircmdekevin@gmail.com) | Access this article online | | | --- | --- | | Quick Response Code: | Website:
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10.4103/2277-9531.114210 | to cancer of different sites in the body. In India, tobacco consumption is widely prevalent and culturally accepted. India has the highest number of oral cancer cases in the world, with tobacco being popular in smokeless forms as well. It is estimated that in year 2005, 143,963 Indians would have been diagnosed with oral and pharyngeal cancers and 91,029 would have died of the disease. [1] A tobacco free policy at work protects nonsmokers from the harmful effects of tobacco smoke. The tobacco user receives positive peer influence from the colleagues. As a large part of the day is spent at work, such a policy would help in reducing the frequency of tobacco use. This, however, may not lead to tobacco cessation among tobacco users in the absence of any support for quitting, as tobacco is highly addictive. [2] Communication skills are important for the medical students at various duties they perform at present and as a future Copyright: © 2013 Fernandez K. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. This article may be cited as: Fernandez K, Pandve HT, Debnath DJ. Use of interactive teaching methods in tobacco cessation program and examine it by using objective structured clinical exam. J Edu Health Promot 2013;2:28 . Journal of Education and Health Promotion | Vol. 2 | June 2013 1 health professional. Various methods can be used to improve the communication skills. As per study conducted by Nunes P, Students were introduced to various consultation models initially in a more traditional clas

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What was the aim of the study?

To improve MBBS students’ communication skills in counseling tobacco users using interactive teaching methods and to assess the improvement with OSCE.

How were students’ communication skills evaluated?

Students were assessed using standardized patients through an objective structured clinical examination (OSCE) both before and after the intervention.

Which interactive teaching methods were used?

Role play, interactive sessions, and anecdotes were used to train students to enhance communication skills.

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