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Johnny Ludvigsson

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Parents' attitudes to children's tobacco smoke exposure and how the issue is handled in health care.

INTRODUCTION: The objective of the study was to understand the opinions and attitudes among parents of preschool children towards children's passive smoking, to show how attitudes influenced smoking and smoking behavior, and how the parents had experienced the handling of the tobacco issue in antenatal and child health care. METHOD: A subsample of smoking and nonsmoking parents (n = 300) with 4- to 6-year-old children participating in All Babies in Southeast Sweden (ABIS), a prospective study on environmental factors affecting development of immune-mediated diseases, answered a questionnaire on their opinions and attitudes to children's passive smoking. RESULTS: Indoor smokers were more positive regarding smoking, less aware of the adverse health effects from passive smoking, and more negative regarding the handling of tobacco prevention in health care than both outdoor smokers and nonsmokers. Indoor smokers' idea of how children should be protected from tobacco smoke exposure was significantly different from the idea of nonsmokers and outdoor smokers. DISCUSSION: Results indicate that further intense efforts are needed to convince the remaining indoor smokers about the adverse health effects related to tobacco smoke exposure. Pediatric nurses meet these parents in their daily work and should be aware of the need to focus this group and their use of protective measures.

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Nurses' views of longitudinal genetic screening of and research on children.

There is a lack of empirical data exploring ethical issues of genetic screening and longitudinal research involving children. Therefore, this pilot interview study explored the perceptions of nurses and midwives in relation to their involvement in an ongoing genetic preventive screening process involving children - the All Babies in South-east Sweden (ABIS) study (n=17,005). Data were collected through semistructured interviews with 10 nurses involved in all information and sampling procedures. While providing the preliminary nature of this study, it supports the idea of the importance of further research, both from a nursing professional perspective and from other parties involved in clinical research. The findings made in this study suggest that for such studies it is vital that nurses and midwives are fully informed about aims, methods, and potential intervention/prevention since in many cases they have a central role in several areas of screening and clinical longitudinal research involving children, e.g. information to potential research participants, obtaining informed consent, and data collection. With a thorough understanding of the research, including both basic aims and methods as well as potential future prevention aims, the nursing staff involved will be better placed to help participants make an informed choice and to provide additional information to the participants. Further research may be needed that aims to develop effective methods in preparing data collectors. It is also suggested that the design of the information process, and especially in longitudinal research involving young children, is of utmost importance before such studies are commenced.

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