Assessing parental awareness and concerns about children's tobacco smoke exposure: a community-based analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Information regarding children's exposure to tobacco smoke, posing significant risks, is usually reliant on parental reports. We aimed to adopt the scale of parental perception of children's tobacco smoke exposure (PPE) into Turkish, and investigate its correlation with sociodemographic factors.

Methods

The language and cultural adaptation of the original scale was carried out according to the international guidelines. The participants consisted of 250 females and 250 males living in Samsun province who are over the age of 18, have children younger than 18 years old, without any visual impairment or communication barrier. The survey forms were administered through face-to-face interviews between November 2022 and April 2023.

Results

Mean age of the parents

SUBMITTER: Yaylaoglu S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11827174 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature