Secondhand Smoking
Conditions
Keywords
SHS
Brief summary
The high prevalence of smoking in adults in many developing countries (e.g. in China, 61% among men and 7% among women) results in many children being exposed to secondhand smoke (SHS). Although in 2001 the American Academy of Pediatrics recommended the promotion of proper smoking hygiene, (i.e. smoking away from the immediate environment of infants and children), similar recommendations in many developing countries are either scarce or non-existent. We hypothesize that implementation of a package of smoking hygiene intervention measures delivered by community health workers (CHWs) will reduce Chinese children's exposure to SHS and improve their respiratory health.
Interventions
BEHAVIORALsmoking hygiene intervention
The intervention, SHI, will address SHS and quitting. It will include behavioral counseling to address health hazards of SHS for children, brief advice to quit and to adopt a no smoking policy around children and self-help materials (related to second hand smoking).
Sponsors
Flight Attendant Medical Research Institute
Boston University
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
SINGLE (Outcomes Assessor)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to 65 Years
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
1. household member has smoked one or more cigarettes daily for the past 30 days as self reported; 2. household smoker smokes a total of at least 10 cigarettes per week at home in the presence of the child, as self reported; 3. smoker household member and the child are living together in the same household and will live together during the entire period of the study; 4. residents of the study community; 5. able to communicate in Mandarin Chinese or local Shanghai dialect; 6. has signed an informed consent form or given verbal consent (for those who cannot read and write).
Exclusion criteria
1. reported residential coal burning and confirmed by the interviewer; 2. households with breast-feeding child; 3. household members do not smoke at home; 4. smoker member does not live in the same household as the under 5 child; 5. non-local community resident; and 6. not able to communicate in Mandarin Chinese or Shanghai dialect.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| improvement of smoking hygiene practices within the household as reported by the subjects | at 6 months | The main outcome measures are: improvement of smoking hygiene practices within the household as reported by the subjects (i.e. reduction in the number of cigarettes smoked indoors at home while a child was present during the previous week) and reduction in children's cotinine concentrations in urine at 6- month follow up. |
Countries
China
Outcome results
None listed