Back to Search
Start Over
Determinants of smoking behaviour in outpatients with schizophrenia.
- Source :
-
Schizophrenia research [Schizophr Res] 2000 Jan 21; Vol. 41 (2), pp. 373-81. - Publication Year :
- 2000
-
Abstract
- The present study is an assessment of the rate and severity of tobacco consumption in outpatients with schizophrenia, and the determinants of smoking behaviour. Sixty-four patients, assessed by the Item Group Checklist section of the SCAN interview and fitting DSM-IV criteria, were evaluated with CGI and the PANSS scales. In addition, they completed STAI (Spielberger), EPQ (Eysenck), and TPQ (Cloninger) questionnaires. Tobacco dependence was assessed by the Fagerström test. One hundred and thirty-seven consecutive outpatients were psychiatric controls. Forty-one out of 64 patients with schizophrenia (64.1%) were current smokers, this rate being significantly higher than in other psychiatric patients and general population. The severity of cigarette consumption in smokers was greater (mean of 22.4 cigarettes/day) than in the general population, but it was not different from that of other psychiatric patients. For patients with schizophrenia, no one variable (except male sex) was different between smokers and non-smokers, but the number of cigarettes/day correlated with state anxiety, trait anxiety, and neuroticism. In the multivariate analysis, the only variable that remained significant was neuroticism. The relationship between clinical features and severity of smoking behaviour may be linked to non-specific variables such as neuroticism and anxiety, but not to psychotic symptoms.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Ambulatory Care statistics & numerical data
Anxiety diagnosis
Anxiety epidemiology
Anxiety psychology
Female
Humans
Male
Middle Aged
Personality Inventory
Psychiatric Status Rating Scales
Schizophrenia diagnosis
Schizophrenic Psychology
Smoking psychology
Spain
Schizophrenia epidemiology
Smoking epidemiology
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 0920-9964
- Volume :
- 41
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- MEDLINE
- Journal :
- Schizophrenia research
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 10708347
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1016/s0920-9964(99)00082-1