Smoking ban in a psychiatry department: are nonsmoking employees less exposed to environmental tobacco smoke?

F Vorspan; V Bloch; E Guillem; G Dupuy; S Pirnay; N Jacob; J-P Lépine

doi:10.1016/j.eurpsy.2009.04.003

Smoking ban in a psychiatry department: are nonsmoking employees less exposed to environmental tobacco smoke?

Eur Psychiatry. 2009 Dec;24(8):529-32. doi: 10.1016/j.eurpsy.2009.04.003. Epub 2009 Jun 21.

Authors

F Vorspan¹, V Bloch, E Guillem, G Dupuy, S Pirnay, N Jacob, J-P Lépine

Affiliation

¹ Service de psychiatrie, hôpital Fernand-Widal, AP-HP, 200 rue du Faubourg-St-Denis, Paris, France. [email protected]

PMID: 19540729
DOI: 10.1016/j.eurpsy.2009.04.003

Abstract

Staff members of psychiatric facilities are at high risk of secondhand smoking. Smoking exposure was assessed in 41 nonsmoking employees of a psychiatry department before and after a ban. Subjective exposure measures decreased in 76% of the subjects. Salivary cotinine decreased in the subsample of seven subjects with high pre-ban levels (32+/-8 vs 40+/-17 ng/ml, p=.045).

MeSH terms

Adult
Chi-Square Distribution
Cotinine / analysis*
Female
Humans
Male
Occupational Exposure
Saliva / chemistry*
Statistics, Nonparametric
Tobacco Smoke Pollution*
Workplace

Substances

Tobacco Smoke Pollution
Cotinine