Fang Shona C, Chen Shan, Trachtenberg Felicia, Rokicki Slawa, Adamkiewicz Gary, Levy Douglas E
New England Research Institutes, Inc., Watertown, MA, United States of America.
Interfaculty Initiative in Health Policy, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States of America.
PLoS One. 2016 May 12;11(5):e0155024. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0155024. eCollection 2016.
Tobacco smoke exposure (TSE) in public multi-unit housing (MUH) is of concern. However, the validity of self-reports for determining TSE among non-smoking residents in such housing is unclear.
We analyzed data from 285 non-smoking public MUH residents living in non-smoking households in the Boston area. Participants were interviewed about personal TSE in various locations in the past 7 days and completed a diary of home TSE for 7 days. Self-reported TSE was validated against measurable saliva cotinine (lower limit of detection (LOD) 0.02 ng/ml) and airborne apartment nicotine (LOD 5 ng). Correlations, estimates of inter-measure agreement, and logistic regression assessed associations between self-reported TSE items and measurable cotinine and nicotine.
Cotinine and nicotine levels were low in this sample (median = 0.026 ng/ml and 0.022 μg/m(3), respectively). Prevalence of detectable personal TSE was 66.3% via self-report and 57.0% via measurable cotinine (median concentration among those with cotinine>LOD: 0.057 ng/ml), with poor agreement (kappa = 0.06; sensitivity = 68.9%; specificity = 37.1%). TSE in the home, car, and other peoples' homes was weakly associated with cotinine levels (Spearman correlations rs = 0.15-0.25), while TSE in public places was not associated with cotinine. Among those with airborne nicotine and daily diary data (n = 161), a smaller proportion had household TSE via self-report (41.6%) compared with measurable airborne nicotine (53.4%) (median concentration among those with nicotine>LOD: 0.04 μg/m(3)) (kappa = 0.09, sensitivity = 46.5%, specificity = 62.7%).
Self-report alone was not adequate to identify individuals with TSE, as 31% with measurable cotinine and 53% with measurable nicotine did not report TSE. Self-report of TSE in private indoor spaces outside the home was most associated with measurable cotinine in this low-income non-smoking population.
公共多单元住房(MUH)中的烟草烟雾暴露(TSE)令人担忧。然而,在此类住房的非吸烟居民中,用于确定TSE的自我报告的有效性尚不清楚。
我们分析了波士顿地区285名居住在无烟家庭中的非吸烟公共MUH居民的数据。参与者接受了关于过去7天内在不同地点的个人TSE的访谈,并完成了7天的家庭TSE日记。自我报告的TSE与可测量的唾液可替宁(检测下限(LOD)0.02 ng/ml)和空气中的公寓尼古丁(LOD 5 ng)进行了验证。相关性、测量间一致性估计以及逻辑回归评估了自我报告的TSE项目与可测量的可替宁和尼古丁之间的关联。
该样本中的可替宁和尼古丁水平较低(中位数分别为0.026 ng/ml和0.022 μg/m³)。通过自我报告可检测到的个人TSE患病率为66.3%,通过可测量的可替宁为57.0%(可替宁>LOD者的中位数浓度:0.057 ng/ml),一致性较差(kappa = 0.06;敏感性 = 68.9%;特异性 = 37.1%)。家中、车内和他人家中的TSE与可替宁水平弱相关(斯皮尔曼相关性rs = 0.15 - 0.25),而公共场所的TSE与可替宁无关。在有空气中尼古丁和每日日记数据的人群(n = 161)中,通过自我报告有家庭TSE的比例(41.6%)低于通过可测量的空气中尼古丁(53.4%)(尼古丁>LOD者的中位数浓度:0.04 μg/m³)(kappa = 0.09,敏感性 = 46.5%,特异性 = 62.7%)。
仅靠自我报告不足以识别有TSE的个体,因为31%可测量到可替宁和53%可测量到尼古丁的人未报告有TSE。在这个低收入非吸烟人群中,家庭以外私人室内空间的TSE自我报告与可测量的可替宁最相关。