Nicotine - Misperceptions, Misinformation, or Disinformation: Difference between revisions

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===2021: [https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/18/14/7713/htm Persistent Misperceptions about Nicotine among US Physicians: Results from a Randomized Survey Experiment]===
===2021: [https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/18/14/7713/htm Persistent Misperceptions about Nicotine among US Physicians: Results from a Randomized Survey Experiment]===
*Question wording is important when measuring physicians’ beliefs about nicotine; however, even after accounting for question version, misperceptions about the direct health effects of nicotine were common and varied by sex and specialty.
*Question wording is important when measuring physicians’ beliefs about nicotine; however, even after accounting for question version, misperceptions about the direct health effects of nicotine were common and varied by sex and specialty.
===2021: [https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jdd.12788 Nicotine-related misperceptions among faculty and students at a Midwestern dental school]===
*The response rate for faculty was 55.1% and that for students was 37.5%. The majority of faculty and students “agreed” or “strongly agreed” that nicotine causes cancer, birth defects, cardiovascular disease, oral inflammation, and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease.
*Dental school faculty and students linked the risks of smoking tobacco to nicotine. Based on the results of this study, we feel our institution's curriculum should consider including information specific to nicotine in addition to tobacco in general.




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