Moisés Fernandes Lemos

Fatores associados ao tabagismo em pacientes pós-cirurgia bariátrica

Objective: To estimate the prevalence of tobacco smoking, nicotine dependence and associated factors in individuals submitted to bariatric surgery. Methods: A cross-sectional study with 303 bariatric patients, performed between 2015 and 2016, in Catalao, Goias State, Brazil. A questionnaire with sociodemographic variables, health conditions and family history was used. Being currently smoker and having high nicotinic dependence, with agglutination of the high and very high levels of dependence, were taken as predictor variables for the present study, variables collected from the Fargestrom instrument score. The chi-square test was adopted with a significance level of p 0.038). Conclusion: The significant prevalence of tobacco smoking found in this study was associated with factors such as sex, psychic comorbidities (depression/anxiety), family history of suicide, sleeping difficulty, and, negatively, with religious practice.