Second-hand smoke in mental healthcare settings: time to implement total smoke-free bans? | Zendy

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Second-hand smoke in mental healthcare settings: time to implement total smoke-free bans?

Author(s) -

Montse Ballbè,

Xisca Sureda,

José M. Martínez-Sánchez,

Esteve Saltó,

Antoni Gual,

Esteve Fernández

Publication year - 2013

Publication title -

international journal of epidemiology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 3.406

H-Index - 208

eISSN - 1464-3685

pISSN - 0300-5771

DOI - 10.1093/ije/dyt014

Subject(s) - smoke , environmental health , confidence interval , confounding , medicine , smoking ban , public health , mental health , secondhand smoke , geography , meteorology , psychiatry , nursing , pathology

Second-hand smoke is associated with adverse health effects. Many countries have extended smoke-free policies to public buildings and workplaces such as hospitals, but mental health units have usually been exempted from complete smoke-free bans. The objective of this study was to evaluate second-hand smoke levels in mental health units with different types of smoking bans. Method We conducted a cross-sectional study to evaluate second-hand smoke in 64 mental health inpatient units (95.5% of the all such units) in Catalonia, Spain. We measured air concentrations of particulate matter <2.5 μm (PM2.5) as a marker of second-hand smoke in different locations at each unit.

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