RT Journal Article
T1 Prevalence of secondhand smoke exposure in asthmatic children at home and in the car: A cross-sectional study
A1 Antunes, Henedina
A1 Precioso, José
A1 Araújo, Ana Carolina
A1 Machado, José Cunha
A1 Samorinha, Catarina
A1 Rocha, Vânia
A1 Gaspar, Ângela P.
A1 Becoña Iglesias, Elisardo
A1 Belo-Ravara, S.
A1 Vitória, Paulo D.
A1 Rosas, Manuel
A1 Fernández, Esteve
AB Objective: To compare secondhand smoke exposure (SHSe) prevalence at home and inside thecar between asthmatic and non-asthmatic Portuguese children.Materials and methods: This is a cross-sectional study that assessed children’s SHSe in a representative sample of nine Portuguese cities. A validated self-reported questionnaire wasadministered to a random sample of 4th grade students during the school year of 2010/2011.The asthma prevalence was defined by the answers to three questions regarding asthma symptoms, medication and inhaler use. We performed chi-square tests and analysed frequencies,contingency tables, confidence intervals, and odd-ratios.Results: The self-reported questionnaire was administered to 3187 students. Asthma prevalence was 14.8% (472 students). Results showed that 32.3% of non-asthmatic children and 32.4%of asthmatic children were exposed to secondhand smoke as at least one of their householdmembers smoked at home. The prevalence of parental smoking, smoking among fathers andsmoking among mothers at home was also similar in both groups (asthmatic and non-asthmaticchildren). SHSe inside the car was 18.6% among non-asthmatic children and 17.9% among asthmatic children.Conclusions: Asthmatic and non-asthmatic children were equally exposed to secondhandsmoke, because no significant differences were found between the two groups concerning theprevalence of SHSe at home and inside the car. These findings highlight the need to includeSHSe brief advice in paediatric asthma management
PB Elsevier
SN 0873-2159
YR 2016
FD 2016
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10347/22397
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10347/22397
LA eng
NO Antunes, H., Precioso, J., Araújo, A., Machado, J., Samorinha, C., Rocha, V., Gaspar, Â., Becoña, E., Belo-Ravara, S., Vitória, P., Rosas, M. and Fernandez, E., 2016. Prevalence of secondhand smoke exposure in asthmatic children at home and in the car: A cross-sectional study. Revista Portuguesa de Pneumologia (English Edition), 22(4), pp.190-195
NO This study was supported through FEDER from the Operational Programme Factors of Competitiveness --- COMPETE and through national funding from the Foundation forScience and Technology --- FCT (Portuguese Ministry of Education and Science) (FCOMP-01-0124-FEDER-009117). The authors also thank the ‘‘Sociedade Portuguesa de Pediatria’’by the prize attributed to the communication on this topic in the National Conference of Pediatrics, in October 2012
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