Fear of COVID-19 among nonsmokers and smokers/former smokers: Implications for health promotion practice.

Q3 Medicine

American journal of disaster medicine Pub Date : 2022-09-01 DOI:10.5055/ajdm.2022.0446

Blake T Hilton, Brandt J Wiskur, Michael W Brand, Julio I Rojas, Raina D Leckie, Maria Trapp, Katrin Gaardbo Kuhn

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Abstract

Introduction: Fear of COVID-19 may differ for individuals with compromised health and those with unhealthy behaviors, placing them at greater risk. Based on previous analysis of academic medical center faculty and staff, the authors predicted that workers who were smokers/previous smokers would express the greater fear of COVID-19 relative to nonsmokers.

Methods: The present study used the Fear of COVID-19 Scale to assess fear among nonsmokers (n = 1,489) and smokers/previous smokers (n = 272) from a larger population of academic medical center members (N = 1,761). This study assessed nonsmokers' and smokers/previous smokers' demographic and background variables on Fear of COVID-19 scores.

Results: In this academic community, smokers/previous smokers had higher fear of COVID-19 scores than did nonsmokers (p < 0.05). Smokers/previous smokers differed from nonsmokers on three Fear of COVID-19 scale items (most afraid of COVID-19, fear of losing life, and physiological fear of COVID-19).

Discussion/conclusions: These results provide a better understanding of how fear of COVID-19 can differ based on one's smoking status. These findings inform public health smoking cessation efforts aimed at reducing morbidity and mortality, both in response and secondary to COVID-19 exposure.

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非吸烟者和吸烟者/前吸烟者对COVID-19的恐惧:对健康促进实践的影响

健康状况不佳的人和有不健康行为的人对COVID-19的恐惧可能不同，使他们面临更大的风险。根据之前对学术医疗中心教职员工的分析，作者预测，相对于不吸烟者，吸烟/以前吸烟的工人会表现出更大的对COVID-19的恐惧。方法:本研究使用COVID-19恐惧量表评估来自学术医疗中心成员(n = 1761)的非吸烟者(n = 1489)和吸烟者/既往吸烟者(n = 272)的恐惧。本研究评估了非吸烟者和吸烟者/既往吸烟者对COVID-19恐惧评分的人口统计学和背景变量。结果:在该学术团体中，吸烟者/既往吸烟者对COVID-19的恐惧评分高于非吸烟者(p < 0.05)。吸烟者/既往吸烟者与非吸烟者在对COVID-19恐惧量表的三个项目(最害怕COVID-19、害怕失去生命和对COVID-19的生理恐惧)上存在差异。讨论/结论:这些结果更好地理解了吸烟状况对COVID-19的恐惧有何不同。这些发现为公共卫生戒烟工作提供了信息，旨在降低因COVID-19暴露而引起和继发的发病率和死亡率。

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American journal of disaster medicine Medicine-Medicine (all)

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期刊介绍： With the publication of the American Journal of Disaster Medicine, for the first time, comes real guidance in this new medical specialty from the country"s foremost experts in areas most physicians and medical professionals have never seen…a deadly cocktail of catastrophic events like blast wounds and post explosion injuries, biological weapons contamination and mass physical and psychological trauma that comes in the wake of natural disasters and disease outbreak. The journal has one goal: to provide physicians and medical professionals the essential informational tools they need as they seek to combine emergency medical and trauma skills with crisis management and new forms of triage.