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| Title |
Smoking and environmental characteristics of smokers with a mental illness, and associations with quitting behaviour and motivation; a cross sectional study
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| Published in |
BMC Public Health, April 2016
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| DOI | 10.1186/s12889-016-2969-1 |
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| Authors |
Alexandra P. Metse, John Wiggers, Paula Wye, Lyndell Moore, Richard Clancy, Luke Wolfenden, Megan Freund, Tara Van Zeist, Emily Stockings, Jenny A. Bowman |
| Abstract |
Persons with a mental illness are less likely to be successful in attempts to quit smoking. A number of smoking and environmental characteristics have been shown to be related to quitting behaviour and motivation of smokers generally, however have been less studied among smokers with a mental illness. This study aimed to report the prevalence of smoking characteristics and a variety of physical and social environmental characteristics of smokers with a mental illness, and explore their association with quitting behaviour and motivation. A cross-sectional descriptive study was undertaken of 754 smokers admitted to four psychiatric inpatient facilities in Australia. Multivariable logistic regression analyses were undertaken to explore the association between smoking and environmental characteristics and recent quitting behaviour and motivation. Participants were primarily daily smokers (93 %), consumed >10 cigarettes per day (74 %), and highly nicotine dependent (51 %). A third (32 %) lived in a house in which smoking was permitted, and 44 % lived with other smokers. The majority of participants believed that significant others (68-82 %) and health care providers (80-91 %) would be supportive of their quitting smoking. Reflecting previous research, the smoking characteristics examined were variously associated with quitting behaviour and motivation. Additionally, participants not living with other smokers were more likely to have quit for a longer duration (OR 2.02), and those perceiving their psychiatrist to be supportive of a quit attempt were more likely to have had more quit attempts in the past six months (OR 2.83). Modifiable characteristics of the physical and social environment, and of smoking, should be considered in smoking cessation interventions for persons with a mental illness. |
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The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 58 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 58 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 10 | 17% |
| Student > Bachelor | 9 | 16% |
| Researcher | 5 | 9% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 3 | 5% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 3 | 5% |
| Other | 8 | 14% |
| Unknown | 20 | 34% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Psychology | 11 | 19% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 9 | 16% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 9 | 16% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 2 | 3% |
| Engineering | 2 | 3% |
| Other | 5 | 9% |
| Unknown | 20 | 34% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 3. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 01 January 2017.
All research outputs
#7,481,383
of 22,869,263 outputs
Outputs from BMC Public Health
#7,908
of 14,905 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#107,530
of 300,632 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Public Health
#121
of 206 outputs
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