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Nicotine dependence in community-dwelling Chinese patients with schizophrenia
BACKGROUND: Smoking is a serious public health problem. Patients with schizophrenia usually have a higher prevalence of smoking than the general population, but the level of nicotine dependence is seldom studied, especially for patients living in the communities. AIMS: This study aimed to examine th...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6551433/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31179421 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/gpsych-2018-100014 |
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author | Li, Yan Hou, Cai-Lan Ma, Xin-Rong Zang, Yu Jia, Fu-Jun Lai, Kelly Y C Ungvari, Gabor S Ng, Chee H Cai, Mei-Ying Xiang, Yu-Tao |
author_facet | Li, Yan Hou, Cai-Lan Ma, Xin-Rong Zang, Yu Jia, Fu-Jun Lai, Kelly Y C Ungvari, Gabor S Ng, Chee H Cai, Mei-Ying Xiang, Yu-Tao |
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description | BACKGROUND: Smoking is a serious public health problem. Patients with schizophrenia usually have a higher prevalence of smoking than the general population, but the level of nicotine dependence is seldom studied, especially for patients living in the communities. AIMS: This study aimed to examine the level of nicotine dependence in Chinese community-dwelling patients with schizophrenia and explored its associated sociodemographic and clinical factors. METHODS: A total of 621 patients with schizophrenia treated in the primary care centres of Guangzhou were consecutively recruited. The level of nicotine dependence was assessed with the Chinese version of the Fagerström Test for Nicotine Dependence (FTND). RESULTS: 148 patients with schizophrenia were current smokers, and the mean (SD) score of FTND was 5.06 (2.55) for all the current smokers. The prevalence of nicotine addiction was 48.0% (95% CI: 40.0%-56.0%) in patients with current smoking. The patients with schizophrenia had a significantly higher level of nicotine dependence than the Chinese general population. Multiple linear regression analysis revealed that male gender, being unemployed, having a family history of psychiatric disorders, having major medical conditions, first illness episode and less severe positive symptoms were significantly associated with a higher level of nicotine dependence. CONCLUSION: Community-dwelling patients with schizophrenia in China, especially male patients, had a higher level of nicotine dependence than the general population. |
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spelling | pubmed-65514332019-06-07 Nicotine dependence in community-dwelling Chinese patients with schizophrenia Li, Yan Hou, Cai-Lan Ma, Xin-Rong Zang, Yu Jia, Fu-Jun Lai, Kelly Y C Ungvari, Gabor S Ng, Chee H Cai, Mei-Ying Xiang, Yu-Tao Gen Psychiatr Original Research BACKGROUND: Smoking is a serious public health problem. Patients with schizophrenia usually have a higher prevalence of smoking than the general population, but the level of nicotine dependence is seldom studied, especially for patients living in the communities. AIMS: This study aimed to examine the level of nicotine dependence in Chinese community-dwelling patients with schizophrenia and explored its associated sociodemographic and clinical factors. METHODS: A total of 621 patients with schizophrenia treated in the primary care centres of Guangzhou were consecutively recruited. The level of nicotine dependence was assessed with the Chinese version of the Fagerström Test for Nicotine Dependence (FTND). RESULTS: 148 patients with schizophrenia were current smokers, and the mean (SD) score of FTND was 5.06 (2.55) for all the current smokers. The prevalence of nicotine addiction was 48.0% (95% CI: 40.0%-56.0%) in patients with current smoking. The patients with schizophrenia had a significantly higher level of nicotine dependence than the Chinese general population. Multiple linear regression analysis revealed that male gender, being unemployed, having a family history of psychiatric disorders, having major medical conditions, first illness episode and less severe positive symptoms were significantly associated with a higher level of nicotine dependence. CONCLUSION: Community-dwelling patients with schizophrenia in China, especially male patients, had a higher level of nicotine dependence than the general population. BMJ Publishing Group 2019-02-23 /pmc/articles/PMC6551433/ /pubmed/31179421 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/gpsych-2018-100014 Text en © Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2019. Re-use permitted under CC BY-NC. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ. This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 |
spellingShingle | Original Research Li, Yan Hou, Cai-Lan Ma, Xin-Rong Zang, Yu Jia, Fu-Jun Lai, Kelly Y C Ungvari, Gabor S Ng, Chee H Cai, Mei-Ying Xiang, Yu-Tao Nicotine dependence in community-dwelling Chinese patients with schizophrenia |
title | Nicotine dependence in community-dwelling Chinese patients with schizophrenia |
title_full | Nicotine dependence in community-dwelling Chinese patients with schizophrenia |
title_fullStr | Nicotine dependence in community-dwelling Chinese patients with schizophrenia |
title_full_unstemmed | Nicotine dependence in community-dwelling Chinese patients with schizophrenia |
title_short | Nicotine dependence in community-dwelling Chinese patients with schizophrenia |
title_sort | nicotine dependence in community-dwelling chinese patients with schizophrenia |
topic | Original Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6551433/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31179421 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/gpsych-2018-100014 |
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