Tobacco use disorder in the older people: An integrative view

• Autor(a) principal: Mahmud, Ibrahim Clós
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Outros Autores: Lerner, Erick da Rosa, Giergowicz, Fabíola Bastos, Emmanouilidis, Jéssica, Spengler, Rita de Cássia Bernardo, Schneider, Rodolfo Herberto
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Scientia Medica (Porto Alegre. Online)
• Texto Completo: https://revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br/scientiamedica/article/view/41007
• topic: health of the elderly; aged; tobacco use cessation; tobacco use disorderr; public health; saúde do idoso; idoso; abandono do uso de tabaco; tabagismo; saúde pública

Introduction: tobacco use disorder it’s a serious worldwide public health problem that affects all age groups, causing high avoidable morbidity and mortality rates.Objective: describe what has been published about tobacco use disorder in the eldery population in the last five years.Methodology: integrative literature review, where articles were searched in the following databases: PUBMED/MEDLINE, BVS/LILACS, SCOPUS and SCIELO, using the following Health Sciences Descriptors in English: “Tobacco Use Cessation’’ OR “Tobacco Use Disorder’’ AND “Health of the Elderly” OR “Aged” OR “Aged, 80 and over”. Publications that were fully available from 2016 to 2020.Results: Of the 1642 papers recovered from the database, a total of 18 selected articles were reached. With the following categorization: mortality and other adverse clinical outcomes (5); smoking, geriatrics syndromes and other pathologies (4); public policies for tobacco control (3); quality of life and smoking (3); predictive factors for smoking cessation (3).Conclusions: only one selected study was accomplished in Brazil, highlighting the need for Brazilian studies involving smoking in the eldery population, aiming at a better understanding of the involved aspects and future training and optimization of public policies.