We are pleased to share that Dr Siti Idayu Binti Hasan has successfully completed her Doctor of Philosophy (Public Health) viva voce on 20th May 2020 @ 27 Ramadhan 1441 Hijrah. She was supervised by Associate Professor Dr Farizah Mohd Hairi and Associate Professor Dr Amer Siddiq Amer Nordin. Her doctorate thesis was on “Evaluation of Smoking Cessation Training For Healthcare Providers In Malaysia: A Mixed Methods Study”.

Siti Idayu developed a new evaluation tool which can be used to evaluate other smoking cessation training programmes. It is the ‘Providers’ Smoking Cessation Training evaluation tool’ or in short, ProSCiTe. Her intellectual property (IP) is now copyrighted under Universiti Malaya (No. LY2019008277). This is a very novel contribution during her PhD study where not many PhD work managed to produce an IP within a 4-year study duration.

Siti Idayu was also able to proof the effectiveness of SCOPE (a local smoking cessation training programme developed in Universiti Malaya for Ministry of Health staff), where this training should be extended to all health staff in Malaysia, whether they are practicing in the government or private sector. Her findings from the qualitative component of her research provided good insights into the facilitators and barriers on improving the current smoking cessation services in Malaysia.

During her PhD journey, she has published three papers and one chapter in a Policy Book for Ministry of Health Malaysia.

Peer Reviewed Publication

Siti Idayu H, Farizah MH, Mahmoud D, Amer Siddiq AN. Development and validation of an evaluation tool to measure the effectiveness of a smoking cessation training among healthcare providers in Malaysia: The Providers’ Smoking Cessation Training Evaluation (ProSCiTE). Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2019, 16(21), 4297; doi:10.3390/ijerph16214297.

Siti Idayu H, Farizah MH, Amani @ Natasha AT, Amer Siddiq AN. Empowering healthcare providers through smoking cessation training in Malaysia: a preintervention and postintervention evaluation on the improvement of knowledge, attitude and self-efficacy. BMJ Open 2019;9(9):e030670. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2019-030670

Siti Idayu H, Farizah MH, Amer Siddiq AN. What predict smoking cessation intervention among healthcare providers in Malaysia? The importance of attitude and self-efficacy characteristics. ASM Sc. J., 13, Special Issue 5, 2020 for APRU2018, 51-59

Book Chapter

Mohamad Haniki Nik Mohamed, Amer Siddiq Amer Nordin, Wee Lei Hum, Dr Fatanah Ismail, Noraliza Noordin Merican, Norashikin Mahdan, Zanariah Zaini, Siti Idayu Hasan. Translating Evidence Towards Tobacco Control Policy in Malaysia – OFFER HELP TO QUIT TOBACCO USE. ISBN 978-967-2173-01-4. Published by Ministry of Health Malaysia. 2017.

Our heartiest congratulations!