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Secondhand Smoke Exposure and Health Services Use among Adolescent Current Smokers
BACKGROUND: To investigate the associations of secondhand smoke (SHS) exposure with medical consultation and hospitalisation among adolescents in Hong Kong. METHODS: A total of 35827 secondary 1 (US grade 7) to secondary 5 students from 85 randomly selected schools completed an anonymous questionnai...
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2013
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3648531/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23667706 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0064322 |
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author | Wang, Man Ping Ho, Sai Yin Lo, Wing Sze Lam, Tai Hing |
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description | BACKGROUND: To investigate the associations of secondhand smoke (SHS) exposure with medical consultation and hospitalisation among adolescents in Hong Kong. METHODS: A total of 35827 secondary 1 (US grade 7) to secondary 5 students from 85 randomly selected schools completed an anonymous questionnaire on smoking, SHS at home, SHS outside home, medical consultation in the past 14 days, hospitalisation in the past 12 months, and socio-demographic characteristics. Current smoking was defined as any smoking in the past 30 days. SHS exposure was classified as none (reference), 1–4 and 5–7 days/week. Logistic regression yielded adjusted odds ratios (AORs) for medical consultation and hospitalisation in relation to SHS exposure at home and outside home in current smokers. Analyses were also done among never-smokers for comparison. RESULTS: Among all students, 15.9% had medical consultation and 5.2% had been hospitalised. Any SHS exposure at home was associated with AORs (95% CI) for medical consultation and hospitalisation of 1.69 (1.14–2.51) and 2.85 (1.47–5.52) in current smokers, and 1.03 (0.91–1.15) and 1.25 (1.02–1.54) in never-smokers, respectively, (P<0.01 for interaction between smoking status and SHS exposure at home). SHS exposure outside home was generally not associated with medical consultation and hospitalisation in smokers and never-smokers. CONCLUSIONS: SHS exposure at home was associated with health services use among adolescent current smokers. Adolescent smokers should be aware of the harm of SHS in addition to that from their own smoking. The evidence helps health care professionals to advise adolescent smokers to avoid SHS exposure and stop smoking. |
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spelling | pubmed-36485312013-05-10 Secondhand Smoke Exposure and Health Services Use among Adolescent Current Smokers Wang, Man Ping Ho, Sai Yin Lo, Wing Sze Lam, Tai Hing PLoS One Research Article BACKGROUND: To investigate the associations of secondhand smoke (SHS) exposure with medical consultation and hospitalisation among adolescents in Hong Kong. METHODS: A total of 35827 secondary 1 (US grade 7) to secondary 5 students from 85 randomly selected schools completed an anonymous questionnaire on smoking, SHS at home, SHS outside home, medical consultation in the past 14 days, hospitalisation in the past 12 months, and socio-demographic characteristics. Current smoking was defined as any smoking in the past 30 days. SHS exposure was classified as none (reference), 1–4 and 5–7 days/week. Logistic regression yielded adjusted odds ratios (AORs) for medical consultation and hospitalisation in relation to SHS exposure at home and outside home in current smokers. Analyses were also done among never-smokers for comparison. RESULTS: Among all students, 15.9% had medical consultation and 5.2% had been hospitalised. Any SHS exposure at home was associated with AORs (95% CI) for medical consultation and hospitalisation of 1.69 (1.14–2.51) and 2.85 (1.47–5.52) in current smokers, and 1.03 (0.91–1.15) and 1.25 (1.02–1.54) in never-smokers, respectively, (P<0.01 for interaction between smoking status and SHS exposure at home). SHS exposure outside home was generally not associated with medical consultation and hospitalisation in smokers and never-smokers. CONCLUSIONS: SHS exposure at home was associated with health services use among adolescent current smokers. Adolescent smokers should be aware of the harm of SHS in addition to that from their own smoking. The evidence helps health care professionals to advise adolescent smokers to avoid SHS exposure and stop smoking. Public Library of Science 2013-05-08 /pmc/articles/PMC3648531/ /pubmed/23667706 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0064322 Text en © 2013 Wang et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Wang, Man Ping Ho, Sai Yin Lo, Wing Sze Lam, Tai Hing Secondhand Smoke Exposure and Health Services Use among Adolescent Current Smokers |
title | Secondhand Smoke Exposure and Health Services Use among Adolescent Current Smokers |
title_full | Secondhand Smoke Exposure and Health Services Use among Adolescent Current Smokers |
title_fullStr | Secondhand Smoke Exposure and Health Services Use among Adolescent Current Smokers |
title_full_unstemmed | Secondhand Smoke Exposure and Health Services Use among Adolescent Current Smokers |
title_short | Secondhand Smoke Exposure and Health Services Use among Adolescent Current Smokers |
title_sort | secondhand smoke exposure and health services use among adolescent current smokers |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3648531/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23667706 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0064322 |
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