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Park SA, Lee DH, Lim HS. Factors Influencing Exposure to Secondhand Smoke: Passive Inhalation in Student Nurses. Osong Public Health Res Perspect. 2019;10(2):78-84doi: 10.24171/j.phrp.2019.10.2.06.
Park, S. A., Lee, D. H., & Lim, H. S. (2019). Factors Influencing Exposure to Secondhand Smoke: Passive Inhalation in Student Nurses. Osong public health and research perspectives, 10(2), 78-84. https://doi.org/10.24171/j.phrp.2019.10.2.06
Park, Sun-A, et al. "Factors Influencing Exposure to Secondhand Smoke: Passive Inhalation in Student Nurses." Osong public health and research perspectives vol. 10,2 (2019): 78-84. doi: https://doi.org/10.24171/j.phrp.2019.10.2.06
Park SA, Lee DH, Lim HS. Factors Influencing Exposure to Secondhand Smoke: Passive Inhalation in Student Nurses. Osong Public Health Res Perspect. 2019 Apr;10(2):78-84. doi: 10.24171/j.phrp.2019.10.2.06. PMID: 31065534; PMCID: PMC6481578.
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Osong Public Health Res Perspect. 2019 Apr;10(2):78-84. doi: 10.24171/j.phrp.2019.10.2.06.

Factors Influencing Exposure to Secondhand Smoke: Passive Inhalation in Student Nurses.

Osong public health and research perspectives

Sun-A Park, Do-Hoon Lee, Hee-Su Lim

Affiliations

  1. Division of Nursing Science, University of Suwon, Hwaseong, Korea.
  2. Department of Laboratory Medicine, Center for Diagnostic Oncology, Research Institute and Hospital, National Cancer Center, Goyang, Korea.
  3. Department of Nursing, Seoul Women's College of Nursing, Seoul, Korea.

PMID: 31065534 PMCID: PMC6481578 DOI: 10.24171/j.phrp.2019.10.2.06

Abstract

OBJECTIVES: To examine the factors affecting passive exposure to secondhand smoke (SHS) in non-smoking student nurses.

METHODS: A cross-sectional study was performed in 196 college students who had not smoked cigarettes in the past 12 months. Urinary cotinine levels were examined to identify exposure to SHS, and social factors were identified that influenced exposure to SHS, including requests that smokers extinguish cigarettes. Logistic regression analysis was used to predict the factors influencing SHS.

RESULTS: Urinary cotinine measurements showed that 32 students (16.3%) were exposed to SHS. Risk factors that increased exposure to SHS affected 80 students (40.8%) in the previous 7 days. Students who were exposed to SHS were 4.45-times more likely to have increased urinary cotinine levels than those who were not exposed. Students who asked others to extinguish their cigarettes were 0.34 times less likely to test positive than those who did not.

CONCLUSION: Urinary cotinine was a useful biomarker for identifying exposure to SHS, with respect to the influence of demographic, health-related, and smoking-related factors. In non-smoking nursing students, avoiding exposure to SHS was attributed to self-assertive behavior by requesting smokers to extinguish cigarettes.

Keywords: assertiveness; cotinine; nurse; policy; students; tobacco smoke pollution

Conflict of interest statement

Conflicts of Interest The author has no conflicts of interest to declare.

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