NURSES' KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDE AND PRACTICE REGARDING SECONDHAND SMOKE,AN INTERVENTION STUDY
A, A., EA, S., AA, D., E, K. (2008). NURSES' KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDE AND PRACTICE REGARDING SECONDHAND SMOKE,AN INTERVENTION STUDY. EKB Journal Management System, 32(1), 117-131. doi: 10.21608/ejom.2008.662
Al-Batanony A; Salim EA; Dawood AA; Kasem E. "NURSES' KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDE AND PRACTICE REGARDING SECONDHAND SMOKE,AN INTERVENTION STUDY". EKB Journal Management System, 32, 1, 2008, 117-131. doi: 10.21608/ejom.2008.662
A, A., EA, S., AA, D., E, K. (2008). 'NURSES' KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDE AND PRACTICE REGARDING SECONDHAND SMOKE,AN INTERVENTION STUDY', EKB Journal Management System, 32(1), pp. 117-131. doi: 10.21608/ejom.2008.662
A, A., EA, S., AA, D., E, K. NURSES' KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDE AND PRACTICE REGARDING SECONDHAND SMOKE,AN INTERVENTION STUDY. EKB Journal Management System, 2008; 32(1): 117-131. doi: 10.21608/ejom.2008.662

NURSES' KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDE AND PRACTICE REGARDING SECONDHAND SMOKE,AN INTERVENTION STUDY

Egyptian Journal of Occupational Medicine
Article 6, Volume 32, Issue 1, January 2008, Page 117-131  XML PDF (99.52 K)
Document Type: Study paper
DOI: 10.21608/ejom.2008.662
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Authors
Al-Batanony A1; Salim EA1; Dawood AA2; Kasem E3
1Public Health and Community Medicine Department,Faculty of Nursing; Menoufiya University
2Biochemistry Department; Faculty of Medicine, Faculty of Nursing; Menoufiya University
3Obstetrics and Gynecology Department, Faculty of Nursing; Menoufiya University
Abstract
Background: Smoking is a growing public health problem in Egypt. In 1997, it was estimated that 43.6% of adult males and 4.8% of adult females smoked. Secondhand smoke, known as environmental tobacco smoke (ETS), is a mixture of the sidestream smoke given off by the burning end of a cigarette, pipe or cigar and the smoke exhaled from the lungs of smokers. Non-smokers exposed to secondhand smoke (SHS) at work are at increased risk for adverse health effects.
Objectives: To assess nurses' knowledge, attitude and practice regarding secondhand smoke and to reassess them once more after an intervention health education setting. Participants and Methods: This study was conducted at Menoufiya university hospitals. Two hundred and seventeen nurses were selected as a study group. A predesigned self-administered questionnaire regarding KAP of nurses about SHS was filled by each participant. Urine samples were collected and analyzed for quantitative detection of cotinine level. Results: Nurses had general knowledge about SHS specially its related diseases; however, they had deficient attitude and poor practice towards it. The intervention health education setting, significantly, raised nurses' KAP about SHS and, also, significantly decreased the urinary cotinine level.
Conclusion: Nurses had some knowledge about the health effect of SHS however,their attitude and practice towards it, are still in need for more efforts to include smoking as a major problem in the nursing education curriculum.
Keywords
KAP; secondhand smoke; urinary cotinine
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