Prevalence of smoking in the working population of the children's cardiovascular hospital of Cundinamarca Prevalencia del tabaquismo en población trabajadora del hospital cardiovascular del niño de Cundinamarca

Abstract

The World Health Organization (WHO) establishes that a smoker is a person who has smoked any number of cigarettes daily, during the last month, even one. In recent years, tobacco consumption has been recognized as one of the main causes of increased morbidity in people, directly associated with cardiovascular, respiratory, oncological and other diseases. The objective of this study is to determine the prevalence of smoking in the working population of the Children's Cardiovascular Hospital of Cundinamarca. Material and method: Cross-sectional descriptive study, where a survey was applied as a data evaluation instrument for the identification of the smoking population, location where they work, frequency with which they smoke and shift to which they belong; Its application was for approximately one
week; 632 people were surveyed, corresponding to 82% of all hospital workers. Results: Of the total sample, 109 (17%) people are smokers, of which 41 people (6.5%) correspond to the group of nursing technicians, 8 (1.3%) to the laundry group, 8 (1.3%) %) to the group of doctors, 7 (1.1%) to the group of general services, 5 (0.8%) to the group of nursing, 15 (2.4%) to other professionals, 2 (0.31%) correspond to the group of rehabilitation. Of the 632 people surveyed, 47 of the men surveyed are smokers (43.11%) and 62 women are smokers (56.88%). Conclusions: Smoking prevails over the male gender. It was found that the department in which there is the largest smoking population is that of nursing technicians, followed by other professionals and doctors. Likewise, it was found that 41 people smoke more than 5 cigarettes a day.