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Does raising awareness in families reduce environmental tobacco smoke exposure in wheezy children?

INTRODUCTION: Environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) is thought to increase the severity and number of attacks in wheezy children. Objective assessments are needed to change the behavior of families to reduce the exposure of wheezy children to ETS. AIM: To determine whether informing families about their...

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Autores principales: Nacaroglu, Hikmet Tekin, Can, Demet, Gunay, Ilker, Karkıner, Canan Sule Unsal, Gunay, Turkan, Cimrin, Dilek, Nalcabasmaz, Tugba
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Publicado: Termedia Publishing House 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5560184/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28951711
http://dx.doi.org/10.5114/ada.2017.69316
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author Nacaroglu, Hikmet Tekin
Can, Demet
Gunay, Ilker
Karkıner, Canan Sule Unsal
Gunay, Turkan
Cimrin, Dilek
Nalcabasmaz, Tugba
author_facet Nacaroglu, Hikmet Tekin
Can, Demet
Gunay, Ilker
Karkıner, Canan Sule Unsal
Gunay, Turkan
Cimrin, Dilek
Nalcabasmaz, Tugba
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description INTRODUCTION: Environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) is thought to increase the severity and number of attacks in wheezy children. Objective assessments are needed to change the behavior of families to reduce the exposure of wheezy children to ETS. AIM: To determine whether informing families about their children’s urinary cotinine levels curtailed the exposure of children to ETS. MATERIAL AND METHODS: A survey was used to determine the ETS exposure level, and the urinary cotinine level of each patient was tested. Children with positive urinary cotinine levels were included in the second part of the study. The families were randomly divided into two groups: an intervention group that was advised about urinary cotinine levels by telephone and a non-intervention group that was not so advised. The groups were followed-up 2 months later, and urinary cotinine levels were measured once again. RESULTS: The intervention group contained 65 children of average age of 24.4 ±8.9 months, of whom 46 (70.8%) were male. The non-intervention group contained 69 children of average age of 25.3 ±9.8 months (p > 0.05), of whom 52 (75.4%) were male. The urinary cotinine levels at the time of the second interview were lower in both groups. The number of cigarettes that fathers smoked at home decreased in the intervention group (p = 0.037). CONCLUSIONS: Presenting objective evidence on ETS exposure to families draws attention to their smoking habits. Measurement of cotinine levels is cheap, practical, and noninvasive. Combined with education, creating awareness by measuring cotinine levels may be beneficial.
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spelling pubmed-55601842017-09-26 Does raising awareness in families reduce environmental tobacco smoke exposure in wheezy children? Nacaroglu, Hikmet Tekin Can, Demet Gunay, Ilker Karkıner, Canan Sule Unsal Gunay, Turkan Cimrin, Dilek Nalcabasmaz, Tugba Postepy Dermatol Alergol Original Paper INTRODUCTION: Environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) is thought to increase the severity and number of attacks in wheezy children. Objective assessments are needed to change the behavior of families to reduce the exposure of wheezy children to ETS. AIM: To determine whether informing families about their children’s urinary cotinine levels curtailed the exposure of children to ETS. MATERIAL AND METHODS: A survey was used to determine the ETS exposure level, and the urinary cotinine level of each patient was tested. Children with positive urinary cotinine levels were included in the second part of the study. The families were randomly divided into two groups: an intervention group that was advised about urinary cotinine levels by telephone and a non-intervention group that was not so advised. The groups were followed-up 2 months later, and urinary cotinine levels were measured once again. RESULTS: The intervention group contained 65 children of average age of 24.4 ±8.9 months, of whom 46 (70.8%) were male. The non-intervention group contained 69 children of average age of 25.3 ±9.8 months (p > 0.05), of whom 52 (75.4%) were male. The urinary cotinine levels at the time of the second interview were lower in both groups. The number of cigarettes that fathers smoked at home decreased in the intervention group (p = 0.037). CONCLUSIONS: Presenting objective evidence on ETS exposure to families draws attention to their smoking habits. Measurement of cotinine levels is cheap, practical, and noninvasive. Combined with education, creating awareness by measuring cotinine levels may be beneficial. Termedia Publishing House 2017-08-02 2017-08 /pmc/articles/PMC5560184/ /pubmed/28951711 http://dx.doi.org/10.5114/ada.2017.69316 Text en Copyright: © 2017 Termedia Sp. z o. o. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) License, allowing third parties to copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format and to remix, transform, and build upon the material, provided the original work is properly cited and states its license.
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Karkıner, Canan Sule Unsal
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Cimrin, Dilek
Nalcabasmaz, Tugba
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title_full Does raising awareness in families reduce environmental tobacco smoke exposure in wheezy children?
title_fullStr Does raising awareness in families reduce environmental tobacco smoke exposure in wheezy children?
title_full_unstemmed Does raising awareness in families reduce environmental tobacco smoke exposure in wheezy children?
title_short Does raising awareness in families reduce environmental tobacco smoke exposure in wheezy children?
title_sort does raising awareness in families reduce environmental tobacco smoke exposure in wheezy children?
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5560184/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28951711
http://dx.doi.org/10.5114/ada.2017.69316
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