Yuri Nurdiantami¹*, Dian Luthfiana Sufyan²

Public Health Department, Universitas Pembangunan Nasional Veteran Jakarta

Nutrition Department, Universitas Pembangunan Nasional Veteran Jakarta

Background: The increasing percentage of Indonesian smokers is becoming a bigger problem. Smoking on mothers will affect her family especially their children. Thousands of harmful chemicals contained in cigarettes will increase the severity of diseases on the child. The objective of this study was to investigate the factors affecting smoking status on Indonesian mothers.

Method: This is a cross-sectional study of Indonesian mothers based on The Indonesia Demographic and Health Survey (SDKI) 2017. Total sample in this research is 17.109 mothers. Data were analyzed using logistic regression analysis. The dependent variable is smoking status while the independent variables are age, residential area, working status, residing with husband, number of living children, literacy and educational attainment.

Results: Smoking on Indonesian mother was significantly associated with the number of living children (OR= 1.75; 95% CI=1.35-2.27; p=0.001); literacy (OR= 0.45; 95% CI=0.32-0.62; p=0.001); educational attainment (OR= 0.42; 95% CI=0.27-0.67; p= 0.001) and Age (OR= 1.09; 95% CI=0.83-1.43; p=0.001). Working status, residing with husband and residential area did not show significant association with smoking status.

Conclusion: Indonesia as a developing country needs to pay more attention to factors related to smoking status as well as raising the awareness of the smoking hazard of mothers because it will directly affect its next generation.

Keywords: Mother, Smoking, Indonesian