Table 3 PCA of dental students’ perspectives toward TCC

I cannot determine a patient’s smoking history without being intrusive

0.452

Patients do not expect TCC from a dental student

0.659

0.357

Patients do not listen to dental students during TCC

0.681

0.358

I am concerned that the message of TCC may alienate patients

0.708

Giving unwanted TCC may upset the dentist-patient relationship

0.696

Many tobacco-using patients do not have the motivation to quit

0.514

TCC is ineffective unless the patient has a related health problem

0.350

0.560

Clinical time is too limited to do counselling

0.756

There is no referral pathway for tobacco-using patients

0.763