Comportamentos e hábitos dos professores dos 2.º e 3.º ciclos do ensino básico do Porto face ao tabagismo

• Autor(a) principal: Brandao, M. P.
• Data de Publicação: 2004
• Outros Autores: Cardoso, M. F., Calheiros, J. M.
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10773/8435

According to the Portuguese National Health Inquiry (1998-1999: 334), 21.8% of the population inquired that currently smoke said that they initiated the habit before 15 years of age and 72.1% between the ages of 15 and 24. In these ages teachers have a very important role for the pupils, both in formal teaching-learning situations and in informal situations of conviviality and leisure. Thus it becomes necessary to know the behaviors regarding tobacco of the professors of 2nd and 3rd cycles of basic education, in both directions — prevention or induction of smoking in the young. It is also important to know if students are passive smokers, e. g., if they are exposed to a smoking environment in the school. We inquired 280 professors (20.9% of the total) of 2nd and 3rd cycles of the basic education of the city of Oporto. Of the inquired teachers, 25,7% are current smokers, against the Portuguese smoking prevention law, 21,4% state that it is allowed to smoke in school bars/refectory, and 33,3% of the smokers smoke in these places. Only 30% of the smokers re- spect the law. Although the approach to deal with the smoking problem crosses all the school subject groups, it is the Natural Sciences and Physical Education (34,2% and 45%, respectively, versus 26.4% global results) that outstands. The present study reaffirms the need for educational training and orientation among teachers regarding smoking prevention, since they are agents with formative responsibilities that should also consider expanding the role and enforcement of the law.