Assessment Knowledge of Women’s Regarding Second H and Smoking -Bahary Locality - Khartoum North 2015

Abstract

Abstract

Exposure to

second hand

smoke can cause many of the same

diseases as active smoking. Lung cancer is the most common

causes of deaths related to

second hand

smoke. It increases the

risks of coronary heart disease, lower respiratory tract infections

and asthma. Descriptive cross sectional community base study

design

. This study

aims

to assess knowledge of women regarding

second hand

smoking.

Sample

of this study was Non probability

sampling. Sample size

includes 211 women's estimated by

duration in Abu Halima area

. Tool

of data collection was

questionnaire. This

questionnaire

consisted of two

parts, first part

to assess socio demographic data, second parts to assess

knowledge regarding second hand smoking

through

interviewing

questionnaire technique.

Duration

of data collection started at

November till end at January.

Data analysis

of this study by used

statistic package for social science.

Most important

results

of this

study regarding educational level revealed that

most81% of

participants poor knowledge about pregnant women exposure to

second hand

smoke during pregnancy increase risk of abortion, low

birth weight preterm labour and minority4.7% of participants good

knowledge about pregnant women exposure to

second hand

smoke

during pregnancy increase risk of abortion, low birth weight preterm

labour (p.value=0.000). majority 76.3% of participant not aware

from weight loss as a result of exposure to

second hand

smoking

and quarter7.1% of participant aware from weight loss as a result of

exposure to

second hand

smoking (p.value=0.000).This study

concluded

that there is highly significant relation between

knowledge of participants

about exposure

second hand

smoke

during pregnancy increase risk of abortion

and educational level

(p.value=0.000), also

there is significant relation between

knowledge about respiratory infection and age (p.value=.052).

Moreover there is no significant relation between knowledge about

breast cancer and educational level

(p.value=.420