Department of Family and Community Medicine, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC 27157, USA.
Department of Visual, Performing, & Communication Arts, Johnson C. Smith University, Charlotte, NC 28216, USA.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2020 Nov 20;17(22):8630. doi: 10.3390/ijerph17228630.
This analysis describes beliefs about secondhand smoke and its health effects held by Mexican and Central American immigrants in North Carolina. Data from 60 semistructured, in-depth interviews were subjected to saliency analysis. Participant discussions of secondhand smoke centered on four domains: (1) familiarity and definition of secondhand smoke, (2) potency of secondhand smoke, (3) general health effects of secondhand smoke, and (4) child health effects of secondhand smoke. Secondhand smoke was generally believed to be more harmful than primary smoke. Mechanisms for the potency and health effects of secondhand smoke involved the smell of secondhand smoke, secondhand smoke being an infection and affecting the immune system, and personal strength being protective of secondhand smoke. Understanding these health beliefs informs a framework for further health education and intervention to reduce smoking and secondhand smoke exposure in this vulnerable population.
本分析描述了北卡罗来纳州墨西哥和中美洲移民对二手烟及其健康影响的看法。对 60 份半结构化深入访谈的数据进行了显著分析。参与者对二手烟的讨论集中在四个领域：（1）二手烟的熟悉程度和定义，（2）二手烟的效力，（3）二手烟对一般健康的影响，（4）二手烟对儿童健康的影响。二手烟通常被认为比一手烟更有害。二手烟效力和健康影响的机制涉及二手烟的气味、二手烟是一种感染物并影响免疫系统以及个人力量对二手烟具有保护作用。了解这些健康信念为进一步的健康教育和干预提供了框架，以减少这一弱势群体中的吸烟和二手烟暴露。
