Tobacco use in third level hospital workers: a cross-sectional study
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Introduction: tobacco use is the leading cause of preventable deaths and morbidity around the globe. Previous studies in medical hospitals population are seen as positive role in promoting on tobacco abstinence, however, when tobacco use in health personnel, the odds decrease withdrawal.
Objectives: 1) determine the prevalence of smoking, 2) compare different workspaces on variables allied to the tobacco use, 3) identify risk factors.
Method: a self-report questionnaire containing questions to assess tobacco use and the Fagerström Test of Nicotine Dependence and the Cigarette Dependence Scale to assess nicotine dependence was applied to 1004 workers in the hospital.
Results: 23.4% of the sample reported tobacco use in the last year, 60.4% of the smokers are males, 91.2% with a low dependence. Among the risk factors found that the age group 20 to 31 years (OR=2.62, 95% CI [1.77-3.88], p<.001), male (OR=2.91, 95% CI [1.82-4.68], p<.001), age of first use (OR=1.09, 95% CI [.71-1.68], p<.001), civil status (OR=4.51, 95% CI [1.18- 17.18], p=.027), secondary school (OR=3.51, 95% CI [1.66- 7.40], p=.001), high school (OR=3.11, 95% CI [1.61- 6.02], p=.001) increase the probability to be regular smoker.
Discussion: the present study provides current information of the tobacco use in a third level hospital workers, finding a low prevalence of physicians who smoking behavior (16.3%) compared to other areas of work, the related implications with the findings discussed in the study.
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