Epidemiology of smoking in the rural area of a medium-sized city in Southern Brazil

Revista de saúde pública
Mariana Otero XavierIná S Santos

Abstract

To estimate the prevalence of smoking and associated factors among rural residents. This is a population-based, cross-sectional study of 1,519 individuals carried out in 2016. We randomly selected 24 of the 50 census tracts that make up the eight rural districts of the city of Pelotas, State of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. All individuals aged 18 years or more living in the randomly selected households were eligible. Smokers were all those who smoked ≥ 1 cigarette/day for at least one month or declared that they had stopped smoking for less than one month. The independent variables included socioeconomic, demographic, behavioral, and health characteristics. We investigated age of onset, duration of addiction, number of cigarettes smoked/day, pack-years, and types of cigarettes consumed. Poisson regression was performed to calculate the adjusted prevalence ratios (PR) and 95% confidence intervals (95%CI). The prevalence of smoking was 16.6% (95%CI 13.6-20.0), and it was twice as high in men in relation to women (PR = 1.99, 95%CI 1.44-2.74), in socioeconomic class D or E in relation to class A or B (PR = 2.23, 95%CI 1.37-3.62), and in those who considered their health poor or very poor in relation those with good or very good healt...Continue Reading

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