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Revista Cubana de Salud Pública 2016; 42 (1)

Smoking and smoking risk perception in Cuban education workers, 2010-2011

Varona PP, García RRG, García PRM, Lorenzo VE, Landrove O, Almeida DA, Urraca CO, Borrego ÁLA, Morales RJM, Dorta DAF, Pedraza AD, Fernández CT, Rodríguez H, Asencio MC, Núñez CJ, Benítez GL, Toselló LM, Brossard CM, Carbonell I, Gómez TFD, Fontes GD

Language: Spanish
References: 14
Page: 45-60
PDF size: 155.03 Kb.


ABSTRACT

Objectives: to determine the prevalence and characteristics of active/passive smoking and to describe the risk perception of exposure to second hand smoke in the school setting.
Methods: observational and cross-sectional study conducted from 2010 to 2011. To this end, a questionnaire was given to 1 959 workers from 50 Cuban schools to collect their answers. The questions were related, among other issues, with sociodemographic variables, uses of cigar products, knowledge, attitudes toward smoking, policies established at the schools and perception of exposure risk. Percentages and 95% confidence intervals were estimated and the probabilities of advising to quit smoking were modeled.
Results: the current prevalence of smoking was 33 % (30.2-34.9); 32 % among professors. In the sample, 88 % stated that there were regulations on smoking at school. Eighty two percent admitted that smoking habit in professors had some influence in their student’s smoking whereas 60% were second-hand smokers. In the group, 77 % assessed the smoking- health relationship as very risky. The noninclusion of the topic of smoking in the curriculum, the non-existence of preventive activities outside the classroom and the evaluation of active and passive smoking as little dangerous or riskless decreased the probabilities of advising people to quit smoking.
Conclusions: high prevalence of smoking in education workers, poor preparation to effectively address prevention and control of the habit and the non-compliance with set regulations are objective barriers to the decision-making on the restriction of this addiction in the school setting.


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