A Survey Of Parents On Knowledge,Attitude And Practice For Infants Passive Smoking Of Three Counties In North Of Tianshan Mountains

Objective:To investigate the current status of infants passive smoking at three cities in North of Tianshan Mountains, and the knowledge, attitude and practice of parents,To evaluate the factors that influence the knowledge, attitude and practice of parents, and provide a scientific basis for intervene in the future.Methods : To use a quantitative and qualitative survey method.1. the questionnaire survey by convenience sampling method to extract Urumqi city, Shihezi city and Shawan County as the research area,select the People’s Hospital of Xinjiang Autonomous Region, Shihezi University First Affiliated Hospital,people’s Hospital of Shihezi, Shawan County Maternal, children health care hospital and minority neighborhoods conducted a questionnaire survey. 2. individual depth interview: the self-made and the experts to discuss the revised semi-structured interview outline, by the investigators of not smoking, quit smoking, smoking parents and imams of depth interview and record, recording.Results :1. The infants passive smoking rate was 41.4% at the three cities in Northern of Tianshan Mountains, the Han nationality was 47.2%, Hui nationality was 34.0%, Kazak was 29.6%, Uygur nationality 44.1%, the difference of four nationality was statistically significant(P<0.05). The passive smoking rate in infants was 25%, among which the Han nationality were the highest and the Uygur nationality were the lowest, the difference was statistically significant(P<0.05). The rate of passive smoking in public places was 22.9%, the Uygur nationality were the highest and the Kazak nationality were the lowest, the difference has statistical significance(P < 0.05). The infants of passive smoking rate was34.5%, 1-2 years old children was 46%, 2-3 years old children was 47.9%, the difference was statistically significant(P<0.05). Rural infants passive smoking rate was 36.7%, urban infants were 47%, the city was higher than the rural areas and the difference was statistically significant(P<0.05). Infants at home of passive smoking, 69.3% from the father; passive smoking in public places, mainly from the hotel(32.1%),shops(27.3%) and transportation(21.8%).2. 92.1% of parents knew that passive smoking is harmful to the health of infants, the mother’s awareness rate was 93.6%, the father was 90.7%. The awareness rate of parents of Han nationality was higher than that the ethnic groups, and the difference was statistically significant(P<0.05). Parents on the specific knowledge of passive smoking, passive smoking in infants more susceptible to respiratory disease awareness of the highest, was 84.5%; more likely to suffer from the awareness of lead poisoning is the lowest, 40.7%.3. The attitude of Parents was positive, 97.2% of the parents think that they should pay attention to the passive smoking effects on the health of infants, the approve rate of daily life smoke-free was 90.0%, to the home of smoke-free legislation approved rate was 77.4%, and the smoke-free legislation approve rate of traffic was 83.5%.4. The prevalence of smoking was 28.3%, and now smoking rate was 25.6%. The father smoking rate was55.5%, the now smoking rate was 50.2%, the mother smoking rate was 0. Han nationality father now smoking rate was 58.1%, Kazak nationality was 57.1%, Hui nationality was 40.8%, Uygur nationality was38.2%, the difference is statistically significant(P < 0.05). The rate of non religious belief was 58.8%, the percentage of the people who believe in Islam was 44.3%, the other religions was 40%, and the difference is statistically significant(P<0.001). The smoking rate in rural areas was 45.5%, the city was 55.9%, and the difference is statistically significant(P<0.05). Smoking location of smokers at home, work place and social place, accounted for 72.5%, 63.9% and 61.5% in respectively. 31.9% of smokers at home at the vicinity of smoking in infants, 19.3% of smokers in public places will be in the vicinity of infants. 9.6% of smokers successfully quit smoking, 56.6% of smokers now try to quit.Conclusion: 1. The phenomenon of infants passive smoking is relatively common, parents of passive smoking specific hazards knowledge is insufficient, protect infants to avoid passive smoking, and the action is not optimistic.2. So corresponding measures should be taken to enhance parents’ specific knowledge about the harm of passive smoking and improve their behavior, create "smoke-free family" and "smoke-free public places", to create a smoke-free environment for infants.