Second Hand Smoke Exposure🔗

Table Name	sed_cg_shs
Construct	Second Hand Smoke
Study Visits	V05
Administration	Child-specific: Yes Respondent: Birth Parent or Primary Caregiver Method: Self-administered (in-person or remote) (1 min estimated duration)
Quality Control	Response missingness and proportions were reviewed.

Instrument Details🔗

The Second Hand Smoke Exposure instrument was adapted from Version 01.30 of “Household Exposure to Secondhand Smoke-Current” in the ECHO Study (Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes).

As of 2022, about 1 in 5 US adults report current smoking (CDC 2022). For a child at young ages, all of their smoke exposure will be through contact with adults who smoke, and the majority of that exposure will occur in their household. Childhood exposure to 2nd hand smoke is a significant risk factor for asthma, incident and recurrent respiratory infections, SIDS, lost school days due to infection and hospitalization, and long term risks of chronic pulmonary diseases (EPA 2024). Even limited exposure to second hand smoke has been associated with changes in brain function in young adults, and some animal and human evidence suggests second hand smoke exposure in early life induces changes in cognition, some of which may be sex-specific (Brody et al. 2011; Ling et al. 2016).

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