SciELO - Scientific Electronic Library Online

 
vol.23 número90Necesidad de pediatras de Atención Primaria. Plazas de Pediatría en Atención Primaria vacantes y necesidad de formación específica en esta área competencialLactancia materna y caries dental infantil: ¿tienen alguna relación? índice de autoresíndice de materiabúsqueda de artículos
Home Pagelista alfabética de revistas  

Servicios Personalizados

Revista

Articulo

Indicadores

Links relacionados

  • En proceso de indezaciónCitado por Google
  • No hay articulos similaresSimilares en SciELO
  • En proceso de indezaciónSimilares en Google

Compartir


Pediatría Atención Primaria

versión impresa ISSN 1139-7632

Resumen

RUIZ ESCUSOL, Salomé; GALLARDO MORENO, Soledad; GUIJARRO TAPIA, Eugenio  y  CARDONA MARQUES, Agustina. Tobacco habits of parents of our paediatric patients. Rev Pediatr Aten Primaria [online]. 2021, vol.23, n.90, pp.127-132.  Epub 25-Ene-2022. ISSN 1139-7632.

Introduction:

the impact of passive smoking is underestimated, not only by families but also by society at large. We present the results of a survey of parents conducted in the paediatric clinics of our catchment area over 3 weeks. We describe and analyse the findings of the survey.

Material and methods:

we conducted a cross-sectional, observational and descriptive study over 3 weeks between May 27-31, 2019 including the “Week without smoke” and the weeks 2 weeks before and 2 weeks after.

Results:

72.26% of the parents reported not smoking. In the group of nonsmokers, 68.72% had never smoked. The mean age at initiation of smoking was 17.04 years, with a range of 10 to 38 years. Of all smoking parents, 76.54% had considered quitting. In addition, 77.78% of the smoking parents considered that having a child could influence the decision to quit smoking. The results were similar in the 3 weeks that data were collected.

Conclusions:

most of the parents surveyed did not smoke, and most of the nonsmokers had never smoked. We ought to highlight the early age at which participants started to smoke and that most smokers had never contemplated quitting, as well as the fact that most considered that having a child would influence that decision. Effective interventions are needed to reduce early exposure to tobacco smoke and to improve child health and therefore adult health.

Palabras clave : Tobacco; Tobacco use.

        · resumen en Español     · texto en Español     · Español ( pdf )