Parents’ attitudes to smoking and passive smoking and their experience of the tobacco preventive work in child health care

Carlsson, Noomi; Johansson, Anna-Karin; Hermansson, Göran; Andersson‐Gäre, Boel

doi:10.1177/1367493510382243

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“…Carlsson et al [24] identified that parents’ education level and smoking status are related to their attitudes toward, and risk awareness of, parental smoking. However, only one question in each actually measured attitudes and risk awareness, and another question related to attitude was directly targeted at smokers who might induce misinterpretation for nonsmokers to answer.…”

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Factors Associated with Parents’ Perceptions of Parental Smoking in the Presence of Children and Its Consequences on Children

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Parental smoking is the major source of children’s secondhand smoke exposure and is influenced by parents’ perception of children’s exposure. However, the factors associated with these perceptions remain unclear. The objective of this study was to examine factors associated with parents’ perceptions about parental smoking in the presence of children and its consequences. We conducted a cross-sectional study on parents’ perceptions of parental smoking and measured their evaluations of its consequences using a self-report questionnaire. Other variables include socio-demographic characteristics and smoking-related experience. Results show that parents’ gender, education level, occupational type, smoking status, and agreement on a home smoking ban independently predict parents’ evaluation of the consequences of parental smoking in the presence of children. Parents’ gender, education level, annual family income, smoking status, agreement on a home smoking ban, and evaluation of the consequences of parental smoking independently predicted parents’ perceptions. Findings indicated that a specific group expressed greater acceptance of parental smoking and was less aware of its risks. Motivating parents to create a smoke-free home and increasing awareness of the adverse consequences of parental smoking is beneficial in reinforcing attitudes opposed to parental smoking.

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Factors Associated with Parents’ Perceptions of Parental Smoking in the Presence of Children and Its Consequences on Children

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“…A previous study showed that parents want to have and read information concerning children and their health [21] and migrants want written information both in Swedish and in their native language [57]. Thus booklets written in parents’ native languages may help assist them in their decision to change their smoking behaviour.…”

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“…The intervention was carried out with an interactive approach where the researcher was given access to an understanding based on the participants’ own perspectives, both from the CHC nurses and the parents [30]. The results from the two earlier studies [20,21] formed the basis for the intervention which was designed to reduce children’s ETS exposure in their homes in “high risk areas”. In order to successfully communicate with parents with different backgrounds, the dialogue between nurses and parents needed to be improved, and in order to make this improvement, different evidence based components were combined in an “intervention bundle”.…”

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“…Two earlier studies have found that neither professionals nor parents were satisfied with the tobacco preventive work carried out in CHCs. These studies also found that fathers, foreign born parents and socio-economically disadvantaged groups were perceived as more difficult to reach than other groups [20,21]. Thus, there is a need to develop new strategies and methods to reach these groups in order to minimize ETS exposure in small children.…”

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How to minimize children’s environmental tobacco smoke exposure: an intervention in a clinical setting in high risk areas

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BackgroundDespite the low prevalence of daily smokers in Sweden, children are still being exposed to environmental tobacco smoke (ETS), primarily by their smoking parents. A prospective intervention study using methods from Quality Improvement was performed in Child Health Care (CHC). The aim was to provide nurses with new methods for motivating and supporting parents in their efforts to protect children from ETS exposure.MethodCollaborative learning was used to implement and test an intervention bundle. Twenty-two CHC nurses recruited 86 families with small children which had at least one smoking parent. Using a bundle of interventions, nurses met and had dialogues with the parents over a one-year period. A detailed questionnaire on cigarette consumption and smoking policies in the home was answered by the parents at the beginning and at the end of the intervention, when children also took urine tests to determine cotinine levels.ResultsSeventy-two families completed the study. Ten parents (11%) quit smoking. Thirty-two families (44%) decreased their cigarette consumption. Forty-five families (63%) were outdoor smokers at follow up. The proportion of children with urinary cotinine values of >6 ng/ml had decreased.ConclusionThe intensified tobacco prevention in CHC improved smoking parents’ ability to protect their children from ETS exposure.

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“…Previous research indicates that CHC nurses had a positive attitude to tobacco prevention [9]. However, results indicated that parents were not satisfied with tobacco prevention in CHC and expressed a wish to have a dialogue with the CHC nurse about how they could protect their child from ETS exposure [10]. …”

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Parents’ experiences of participating in an intervention on tobacco prevention in Child Health Care

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BackgroundChild health care is an important arena for tobacco prevention in Sweden. The aim of this study was to describe parents’ experiences from participating in a nursebased tobacco prevention intervention.MethodsEleven parents were interviewed using semi-structured interviews. The material was analysed in a qualitative content analysis process.ResultsThe analysis emerged four categories; Receiving support, Respectful treatment, Influence on smoking habits and Receiving information. The parents described how the CHC nurses treated them with support and respect. They described the importance of being treated with respect for their autonomy in their decisions about smoking. They also claimed that they had received little or no information about health consequences for children exposed to environmental tobacco smoke (ETS). The findings also indicate that both the questionnaire used and the urine-cotinine test had influenced parents’ smoking.ConclusionThe clinical implication is that CHC is an important arena for preventive work aiming to minimize children’s tobacco smoke exposure. CHC nurses can play an important role in tobacco prevention but should be more explicit in their communication with parents about tobacco issues. The SiCET was referred to as an eye-opener and can be useful in the MI dialogues nurses perform in order to support parents in their efforts to protect their children from ETS.

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Parents’ attitudes to smoking and passive smoking and their experience of the tobacco preventive work in child health care

Cited by 8 publications

References 30 publications

Factors Associated with Parents’ Perceptions of Parental Smoking in the Presence of Children and Its Consequences on Children

Factors Associated with Parents’ Perceptions of Parental Smoking in the Presence of Children and Its Consequences on Children

How to minimize children’s environmental tobacco smoke exposure: an intervention in a clinical setting in high risk areas

Parents’ experiences of participating in an intervention on tobacco prevention in Child Health Care

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