Correlation Between Parental Knowledge of Cigarette Smoke Exposure and Acute Breathing Infections (ARI) in Children in the Duren Sawit District Indonesia

Abstract

Children are at a higher risk of getting affected by cigarette smoke rather than adults. A child’s immune system and respiratory system are still in development and are susceptible to various diseases, hence illnesses can spread quickly to the lungs. The type of research done in this paper is observational analytic research with cross sectional study approach. This research observed the correlation between parental knowledge of cigarette smoke hazards and acute breathing infection (ARI) incidents. The data collected in this paper are from 72 questionnaires collected from December 2016-January 2017. The results show that 79,2% of the children suffer from upper respiratory infections. Bivariate tests show no relation between the incidence of upper respiratory infection and parental knowledge of cigarette smoke exposure (p = 0.174), but there is a correlation between lack of parental knowledge and poor attitude towards smoking near children (p=0,035).