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Automated Measurement of Pulmonary Emphysema and Small Airway Remodeling in Cigarette Smoke-exposed Mice
Published on: January 16, 2015
[Freedom from smoking for health care workers. A project from Trieste]
C Negro1, P De Michieli, M Peresson
1U.C.O. di Medicina del Lavoro Università degli Studi di Trieste.
Abstract:
A tree years interventional study to modify smoking habits in health workers in Trieste province was planed in the collaboration of occupational health unit and Tobacco's Dependence Study Center. The aim of this paper is refer about preliminary data of the project started in 2007 regarding smoking habits in health workers of the Azienda per i Servizi Sanitari n.1 "Triestina" (ASS1) and the Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Ospedali Riuniti di Trieste (AOUTS). The project consist of several actions. i) information about risks and opportunities of project; ii) pursuance of the law 51 L 3/2003; iii) Occupational Health Unit and Tobacco's Dependence Study Center collaboration; iv) follow-up of the subjects that choose the disaccustom program. During occupational medical surveillance we collected the data related to 492 workers, 37% of the cases were smokers (180). The results of test of dependence to smoke (test di Fagestrom) showed an high dependence in 19% and an high motivation to stop smoke (test di Richmond) in 39% of the smokers. More than fifty percent of this subjects gave their adhesion to the disaccustom program.
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