Knowledge and Perception Among Rural Adults toward Passive Smoking Exposure on Children - A Case Study from Bangladesh
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Background: Exposure of passive smoking is a key public health issue around the world. The goal of the study was to find out the knowledge and perception among adults towards passive smoking exposure on children in the rural communities of Bangladesh. Methods: A descriptive survey was conducted through a self-administrative questionnaire among six villages of Munshiganj District of Bangladesh. A multistage sampling method was used and a total of 410 both smokers and non-smoker’s adult males and females participated in the study. Basic socio-demographic characteristics descriptive, statistics were described. Knowledge and perception were analyzed and presented by frequencies, percentages and using a chi-square test. The overall score for each item was presented by means and standard deviations. All analyses were completed at α = 0.05 to test the differences between variables. Results: Among knowledge items, four variables included; exposer of healthy child on tobacco smoke does not have any effect (p-value=0.019), tobacco smoke exposure causes cancer (p-value=0.048), little exposure has no harm to a child (p-value=0.045), and public smoking is ban in Bangladesh (p-value=0.006) showed a significant difference with exposure and non-exposure of passive smoking. Whereas, for a perception, only a variable indicated law on smoking banning inside home (p-value=0.041) was found significant difference with exposure of passive smoking. Conclusion: An appropriate health promotion intervention needs to be implemented further which will help to reduce the exposure rate of passive smoking among children.
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