期刊名称：Drustvena istrazivanja. Journal for General Social Issues
印刷版ISSN：1330-0288
出版年度：2003
卷号：12
期号：5 (67)
页码：789-806
出版社：Institute of Social Sciences IVO PILAR
摘要：The prospective study aiming at assessing the effect of parental smoking on the susceptibility to colds and on ventilatory lung function in preadolescent children was carried out in the six-month period from November 1997 to April 1998. The study sample consisted of 337 school- -children, second graders aged 8 to 9 yr, 224 from central urban and 113 from suburban areas of continental Croatia. Information on parental smoking and on socio-economic status of the family was collected from a self-administered questionnaire completed by the parents. During the six-month period the incidence of acute respiratory diseases was surveyed in children. Lung function tests were performed by spirometry. Nearly 59 percent of Croatian children live in a household with at least one smoker; 32% of mothers and 55% of their partners smoked. Both parents are smokers in 31% of families. In the investigated period the incidence of colds in all children was 24,3%. The study demonstrates the relationship between parental smoking in the household and the reporting rates for doctor-diagnosed upper respiratory illness; in children exposed to both parents' smoke OR=2.03 and in children from a family with one smoker OR=1.65 in relation to non-smokers. No significant relationship between exposure to parental smoking and the respiratory function of preadolescent children was found. It can be concluded that parents should be informed about the harmful effects of smoking in childhood and should be advised to refrain from smoking in the presence of children.
