title: Smoking ban in a psychiatry department: are nonsmoking employees less exposed to environmental tobacco smoke?
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).
authors.affiliation: Service de psychiatrie, hôpital Fernand-Widal, AP-HP, 200 rue du Faubourg-St-Denis, Paris, France. florence.vorspan@lrb.aphp.fr
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Vorspan
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Bloch
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Guillem
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Dupuy
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Pirnay
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Jacob
authors.forename: J-P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Lépine
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D016009:Chi-Square Distribution; D003367:Cotinine / Q000032:analysis*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D016273:Occupational Exposure; D012463:Saliva / Q000737:chemistry*; D018709:Statistics, Nonparametric; D014028:Tobacco Smoke Pollution; D017132:Workplace
chemical_list: D014028:Tobacco Smoke Pollution; D003367:Cotinine