Department of Pathophysiology, University of Medicine, Pharmacy, Science and Technology Târgu Mureș, 540139 Targu Mures, Romania.
Clinical County Hospital Mureș, 540142 Targu Mures, Romania.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2022 Jan 21;19(3):1173. doi: 10.3390/ijerph19031173.
There are a multitude of factors that influence smoking status, and minors from the social protection system are a vulnerable category in terms of smoking.
The objective of this research was to assess the degree of smoking dependence and to identify potential predictors of smoking status in foster care teenagers. Smoker status was confirmed by dosing CO in the exhaled air, and the degree of dependence was assessed using the Fagerström score. We performed a multivariate logistic regression analysis.
From the 275 foster care minors, 22.5% were current smokers. Exhaled CO was not influenced by general demographic factors, was associated with the frequency of smoking, and was positively correlated with the estimated number of cigarettes consumed daily and with the Fagerström score. The calculated probability of being a smoker was less than 20.4% in 75% of nonsmokers, whereas 75% of actual smokers had a predicted probability higher than 30.3%.
In addition to age, gender, social environment, previous exposure to secondhand smoking, and residential type of foster care system, the expressed opinions regarding the health effects of tobacco use were associated with smoking in foster care teenagers.
有许多因素会影响吸烟状况，而来自社会保护体系的未成年人在吸烟方面属于弱势群体。
本研究旨在评估被寄养青少年的吸烟依赖程度，并确定其吸烟状况的潜在预测因素。通过检测呼出空气中的 CO 来确定吸烟者身份，使用 Fagerström 评分评估依赖程度。我们进行了多变量逻辑回归分析。
在 275 名被寄养的未成年人中，有 22.5%是当前吸烟者。呼出的 CO 不受一般人口统计学因素的影响，与吸烟频率相关，与每日估计吸烟量和 Fagerström 评分呈正相关。在 75%的非吸烟者中，计算得出的吸烟概率小于 20.4%，而在 75%的实际吸烟者中，预测概率高于 30.3%。
除了年龄、性别、社会环境、之前接触二手烟和寄养系统的居住类型外，对烟草使用对健康影响的看法也与寄养青少年的吸烟行为有关。
