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Measuring Infant Exposure to Environmental Tobacco Smoke

Mary Beth Flanders Stepans

University of Wyoming

Sara G. Fuller

University of South Carolina

Methods to measure infant exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) are needed to identify infants at highest risk for ETS-related health problems. The purpose of this study was to validate measures sensitive to changes in levels of infant exposure to ETS and to develop a predictive model of infant exposure to ETS. Fifteen infants of smoking mothers were followed from birth to 6 weeks of age. Exposure to ETS was measured by using a smoking habits questionnaire, cigarette "butt" collection, infant urine nicotine and cotinine levels, and ambient nicotine (personal air monitors). The 24-hour cigarette butt collection was the best predictor of acute (adjusted r2 = .83) and chronic exposure (adjusted r2 = .47) measured by infant urinary nicotine and cotinine levels when the infants were 2 weeks of age. Including scores on the smoking habits questionnaire and ambient nicotine levels increased the adjusted r2 to .88 and .61, respectively.

Clinical Nursing Research, Vol. 8, No. 3, 198-221 (1999)
DOI: 10.1177/10547739922158269
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