Tobacco Use among Health Care Workers in Southwestern Saudi Arabia

Mahfouz, Ahmed A.; Shatoor, Abdullah S.; Al-Ghamdi, Badr Rashed; Hassanein, Mervat A.; Nahar, Shamsun; Farheen, Aesha; Gaballah, Inasse I.; Mohamed, Amani; Rabie, Faten M.

doi:10.1155/2013/960292

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“…(6) In addition, characteristics from the hospital work environment can also influence the smoking, such as nighttime work, other employment bonds, contact with other smokers and an environment with restrictive measures. (27,28) What the use of sedatives is concerned, a negative relation was identified for the physician-nurse index, organizational support and autonomy. The nursing professionals figure among the health workers who are most prone to the development of mental disorders due to the peculiarities of their work process and the lack of professional acknowledgement, (3) leading them to the use of sedatives as a strategy to relieve tensions.…”

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Ambiente ocupacional e o consumo de substâncias psicoativas entre enfermeiros

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Objective: To analyze the relation between the work environment and psychoactive substance consumption among hospital nurses. Methods: Cross-sectional and descriptive study, involving nurses from three public hospitals in a city in the South of Brazil, being two medium-complexity and one high-complexity institution. The study population consisted of 221 nurses. Based on this figure, the stratified sample size was calculated, considering a 50% proportion, 95% confidence level and 5% maximum error, resulting in a minimum number of 175 participants. Through proportional stratification per institution, a minimum of 103 high-complexity nurses was defined, as well as 36 nurses from each medium-complexity institution. The following inclusion criteria were adopted: having worked at the institution for at least one year and not being on leave. The data were collected between October 2015 and April 2016. In the data collection, sociodemographic and occupational information, the Nursing Work Index -Revised and the Alcohol, Smoking and Substance Involvement Screening Test. The data were analyzed in the software Statistical Package for Social Sciences, version 20.0. Initially, the normality was verified by means of the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test. Descriptive analyses were developed by absolute and relative frequencies for the categorical variables; and medians and dispersion measures for the numerical variables. Results: Alcohol, tobacco and sedatives were the most consumed substances. The monthly income was positively correlated with alcohol consumption among nurses at the medium-complexity hospitals (p=0.01). At the high-complexity hospital, alcohol consumption was negatively correlated with the physician-nurse index (p=0.03). Autonomy, physician-nurse index and organizational support were negatively correlated with the use of sedatives (p<0.01; p<0.01; p=0.02, respectively). Conclusion: The more negative the nurse's work environment, mainly in the relation with physicians, organizational support and autonomy, the greater the consumption of psychoactive substances. ResumoObjetivo: Analisar a relação entre o ambiente de trabalho e o consumo de substâncias psicoativas entre enfermeiros hospitalares. Métodos: Estudo transversal e descritivo, realizado com enfermeiros de três instituições hospitalares públicas localizados em um município da Região Sul do Brasil, sendo duas de média complexidade e uma de alta complexidade. A população deste estudo foi composta por 221 enfermeiros. Com base nesse número, calculou-se o tamanho amostral por estratos, considerando-se a proporção de 50%, nível de confiança de 95% e erro máximo de 5%, o que resultou no número mínimo de 175 participantes. Mediante a estratificação proporcional por instituição definiu-se o mínimo de 103 enfermeiros da alta complexidade e 36 de cada instituição de média complexidade. Adotou-se como critérios de inclusão: trabalhar na instituição há pelo menos um ano e não estar afastado por licença. A coleta de dados foi realizada entre outubro de 2015 e abril de 2...

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“…The only exception is tobacco use, which was reported to be quite low compared to other studies in KSA [7, 10, 35]. The effect of nutrition transition was clearly translated in the low intake of fruit/vegetables, despite a large body of evidence which indicates that high and regular fruit/vegetable consumption is usually associated with reduction in the NCD risk factors, stroke and DM occurrence [36].…”

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Non-Communicable Disease Risk Factors among Employees and Their Families of a Saudi University: An Epidemiological Study

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ObjectivesTo assess the prevalence of noncommunicable disease (NCD) risk factors among Saudi university employees and their families; to estimate the cardiovascular risk (CVR) amongst the study population in the following 10years.MethodsThe NCD risk factors prevalence was estimated using a cross-sectional approach for a sample of employees and their families aged ≥ 18 years old, in a Saudi university (Riyadh in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia; KSA). WHO STEPwise standardized tools were used to estimate NCD risk factors and the Framingham Coronary Heart Risk Score calculator was used to calculate the CVR.ResultsFive thousand and two hundred subjects were invited, of whom 4,500 participated in the study, providing a response rate of 87%. The mean age of participants was 39.3±13.4 years. The majority of participants reported low fruit/vegetables consumption (88%), and physically inactive (77%). More than two thirds of the cohort was found to be either overweight or obese (72%), where 36% were obese, and 59% had abdominal obesity. Of the total cohort, 22–37% were found to suffer from dyslipidaemia, 22% either diabetes or hypertension, with rather low reported current tobacco use (12%). One quarter of participants was estimated to have >10% risk to develop cardiovascular disease within the following 10-years.ConclusionThe prevalence of NCD risk factors was found to be substantially high among the university employees and their families in this study.

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“…Among those, 90% were interested to quit smoking and 66% had actually tried before to quit. Those results represent a barrier in smoking cessation counselling [6] .…”

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Effect of physicians’ smoking status on their knowledge, attitude, opinions and practices of smoking cessation in a University Hospital, in Egypt

Mostafa

Momen

2017

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Background: The tobacco epidemic is one of the biggest public health threats. Smoking prevalence and smoking cessation intentions among physicians vary from a country/community to another. Recently, a global reduction in the rates of smoking among healthcare providers is observed. Aim: This study aims to describe the effect of physicians' smoking status on their knowledge, attitude, opinions, and practices of smoking cessation in patients in a Tertiary Healthcare University Hospital in Cairo, Egypt. Materials and Methods: A cross-sectional study was carried out at four specialized hospitals in a Tertiary Healthcare University Hospital in Cairo. Anonymous questionnaires included sociodemographic, occupational data, history of smoking, smoking-related knowledge, attitude, and practices of smoking cessation counselling. Results: The study included 521 physicians, 26.5% of physicians have never received training on smoking-cessation approaches. The prevalence of current smoking among the studied physicians was 21.5%. Only 45.5% of smoking physicians have never smoked in front of a patient and 27.7% have no compliance to the smoke-free policy in nonsmoking areas. Smoking physicians were significantly less likely than nonsmokers to identify the effect of passive smoking on the heart, lungs, and on neonates (67.9, 58.9, and 53.6% compared with 83.6, 77, 60, and 56.7%, respectively). A lower percentage of smoking physicians (34.8%) agreed that smoking physicians are less likely to convince patients to quit smoking compared with about 60% of nonsmoking physicians. The practices related to smoking cessation as reported by both smokers and nonsmokers were inadequate. Conclusion: Smoking status significantly affects the knowledge, attitude, and some practices of physicians related to smoking cessation counselling. Training on smoking cessation should be enforced during undergraduate and postgraduate studies of physicians.

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Tobacco Use among Health Care Workers in Southwestern Saudi Arabia

Cited by 29 publications

References 13 publications

Ambiente ocupacional e o consumo de substâncias psicoativas entre enfermeiros

Ambiente ocupacional e o consumo de substâncias psicoativas entre enfermeiros

Non-Communicable Disease Risk Factors among Employees and Their Families of a Saudi University: An Epidemiological Study

Effect of physicians’ smoking status on their knowledge, attitude, opinions and practices of smoking cessation in a University Hospital, in Egypt

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