Telephone-Guided Placement and Removal of Nicotine Monitors for the Assessment of Passive Exposure to Environmental Tobacco Smoke
| Autor: | Patricia Dolan Mullen, Hammond Sk, Sockrider Mm, Nicol L, Thompson J, Sajak T, Karen Suchanek Hudmon |
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| Rok vydání: | 1997 |
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0301 basic medicine
Nicotine Air sampling Health Toxicology and Mutagenesis 010501 environmental sciences Toxicology 01 natural sciences Tobacco smoke Cost assessment 03 medical and health sciences medicine Humans Monitoring Physiologic 0105 earth and related environmental sciences 030102 biochemistry & molecular biology business.industry Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Environmental Exposure Passive Exposure medicine.disease Telephone Costs and Cost Analysis Standard protocol Female Tobacco Smoke Pollution Medical emergency business Environmental Monitoring medicine.drug |
| Zdroj: | Toxicology and Industrial Health. 13:73-80 |
| ISSN: | 1477-0393 0748-2337 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/074823379701300107 |
| Popis: | The aim of this study was to determine the feasibility of telephone-guided placement of nicotine air sampling monitors in homes of women with infants. A monitor was mailed to homes in which the mother, her partner, or both were smokers, and a research assistant telephoned the woman and guided her through proper placement of the monitor according to a standard protocol. To assess the success of the guided placement, research assistants visited the homes of 50 women at the end of the two-week air-sampling period. The placement was determined to be correct if the monitor was positioned at least 1 ft from windows, more than 1 ft from the nearest corner of the room, and more than 2 ft from ashtrays. We had a 94% success rate for monitor placement in our study population, and our cost assessment showed that guided placement and removal cost approximately one-tenth the amount of methods requiring research assistants to conduct placements onsite. These results suggest that telephone-guided placement of monitors is an acceptable, inexpensive alternative to onsite placement by research assistants. |
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