This Article Full Text (PDF) References Alert me when this article is cited Alert me if a correction is posted Services Email this article to a friend Similar articles in this journal Alert me to new issues of the journal Add to Saved Citations Download to citation manager Request Permissions Request Reprints Add to My Marked Citations Citing Articles Citing Articles via Google Scholar Citing Articles via Scopus Google Scholar Articles by Bauman, K. E. Articles by Haley, N. J. Search for Related Content PubMed Articles by Bauman, K. E. Articles by Haley, N. J. Social Bookmarking                         What's this?

A Comparison of Biochemical and Interview Measures of the Exposure of Infants to Environmental Tobacco Smoke

Victor J. Strecher

School of Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Robert A. Greenberg

School of Medicine, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Nancy J. Haley

American Health Foundation

This study of 37 infants found substantial agreement among a biochemical indicator of infant passive smoking, an interview measure of the tobacco smoke environment of the infant, and active smoking in the household When any of the three measures were compared, both measures were positive for 75% to 82% of the subjects and negative for 88% to 92%. The correlations among the variables considered as continuous measures ranged from .64 to .74. These correlations are strong enough to suggest that both measures reflect exposure but too weak to assume that one measure can serve as a ready substitute for the other The agreement among continuous measures was due to their ability to distinguish between exposed and nonexposed infants, rather than to their continuous properties.

Evaluation & the Health Professions, Vol. 12, No. 2, 179-191 (1989)
DOI: 10.1177/016327878901200204


CiteULike    Complore    Connotea    Del.icio.us    Digg    Reddit    Technorati    Twitter    What's this?