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Knowledge and Opinions of Healthcare Professionals about Thirdhand Smoke: A Multi-National, Cross-Sectional Study

There is scarce evidence on the knowledge and opinions about third-hand smoke (THS) of health care professionals. The main aim of this study was to explore the knowledge and opinions of health care professionals about THS and, secondarily, to explore the factors that are associated with this knowled...

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Autores principales: Quispe-Cristóbal, Blanca, Lidón-Moyano, Cristina, Martín-Sánchez, Juan Carlos, Pérez-Martín, Hipólito, Cartanyà-Hueso, Àurea, Cabriada-Sáez, Íñigo, de Paz-Cantos, Sonia, Martínez-Sánchez, Jose M., González-Marrón, Adrián
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9141727/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35628082
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare10050945
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author Quispe-Cristóbal, Blanca
Lidón-Moyano, Cristina
Martín-Sánchez, Juan Carlos
Pérez-Martín, Hipólito
Cartanyà-Hueso, Àurea
Cabriada-Sáez, Íñigo
de Paz-Cantos, Sonia
Martínez-Sánchez, Jose M.
González-Marrón, Adrián
author_facet Quispe-Cristóbal, Blanca
Lidón-Moyano, Cristina
Martín-Sánchez, Juan Carlos
Pérez-Martín, Hipólito
Cartanyà-Hueso, Àurea
Cabriada-Sáez, Íñigo
de Paz-Cantos, Sonia
Martínez-Sánchez, Jose M.
González-Marrón, Adrián
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description There is scarce evidence on the knowledge and opinions about third-hand smoke (THS) of health care professionals. The main aim of this study was to explore the knowledge and opinions of health care professionals about THS and, secondarily, to explore the factors that are associated with this knowledge. Cross-sectional study using a snowball sample of multi-national health care professionals (n = 233). Data were obtained from an exploratory, online questionnaire. The health care professionals’ knowledge and opinions on THS were described with absolute frequency and percentage. Chi-square and Fisher-Freeman-Halton exact tests, and simple logistic regression models, were used to explore the bivariate association between the knowledge of the concept THS and sex, continent of birth, educational level, occupation, years of experience, and attitude towards smoking. Finally, a multivariable logistic regression model incorporating all the above variables was fitted. A total of 65.2% of the participants were unaware of the term THS before the study began. In the bivariate analysis, an association was found between prior knowledge of the term THS and continent of birth (p-value = 0.030) and occupation (p-value = 0.014). In the multivariable logistic regression model, a significant association was observed between prior knowledge of the concept THS and sex (p-value = 0.005), continent of birth (p-value = 0.012), and occupation (p-value = 0.001). Almost two out of three health care professionals who participated in our study did not know what THS was. Educational activities on this topic should be implemented.
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spelling pubmed-91417272022-05-28 Knowledge and Opinions of Healthcare Professionals about Thirdhand Smoke: A Multi-National, Cross-Sectional Study Quispe-Cristóbal, Blanca Lidón-Moyano, Cristina Martín-Sánchez, Juan Carlos Pérez-Martín, Hipólito Cartanyà-Hueso, Àurea Cabriada-Sáez, Íñigo de Paz-Cantos, Sonia Martínez-Sánchez, Jose M. González-Marrón, Adrián Healthcare (Basel) Article There is scarce evidence on the knowledge and opinions about third-hand smoke (THS) of health care professionals. The main aim of this study was to explore the knowledge and opinions of health care professionals about THS and, secondarily, to explore the factors that are associated with this knowledge. Cross-sectional study using a snowball sample of multi-national health care professionals (n = 233). Data were obtained from an exploratory, online questionnaire. The health care professionals’ knowledge and opinions on THS were described with absolute frequency and percentage. Chi-square and Fisher-Freeman-Halton exact tests, and simple logistic regression models, were used to explore the bivariate association between the knowledge of the concept THS and sex, continent of birth, educational level, occupation, years of experience, and attitude towards smoking. Finally, a multivariable logistic regression model incorporating all the above variables was fitted. A total of 65.2% of the participants were unaware of the term THS before the study began. In the bivariate analysis, an association was found between prior knowledge of the term THS and continent of birth (p-value = 0.030) and occupation (p-value = 0.014). In the multivariable logistic regression model, a significant association was observed between prior knowledge of the concept THS and sex (p-value = 0.005), continent of birth (p-value = 0.012), and occupation (p-value = 0.001). Almost two out of three health care professionals who participated in our study did not know what THS was. Educational activities on this topic should be implemented. MDPI 2022-05-19 /pmc/articles/PMC9141727/ /pubmed/35628082 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare10050945 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Quispe-Cristóbal, Blanca
Lidón-Moyano, Cristina
Martín-Sánchez, Juan Carlos
Pérez-Martín, Hipólito
Cartanyà-Hueso, Àurea
Cabriada-Sáez, Íñigo
de Paz-Cantos, Sonia
Martínez-Sánchez, Jose M.
González-Marrón, Adrián
Knowledge and Opinions of Healthcare Professionals about Thirdhand Smoke: A Multi-National, Cross-Sectional Study
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title_full Knowledge and Opinions of Healthcare Professionals about Thirdhand Smoke: A Multi-National, Cross-Sectional Study
title_fullStr Knowledge and Opinions of Healthcare Professionals about Thirdhand Smoke: A Multi-National, Cross-Sectional Study
title_full_unstemmed Knowledge and Opinions of Healthcare Professionals about Thirdhand Smoke: A Multi-National, Cross-Sectional Study
title_short Knowledge and Opinions of Healthcare Professionals about Thirdhand Smoke: A Multi-National, Cross-Sectional Study
title_sort knowledge and opinions of healthcare professionals about thirdhand smoke: a multi-national, cross-sectional study
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9141727/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35628082
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare10050945
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