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Offer and Use of Smoking-Cessation Support by Depression/Anxiety Status: A Cross-Sectional Survey.
- Source :
- Journal of Smoking Cessation; Dec2018, Vol. 13 Issue 4, p207-215, 9p
- Publication Year :
- 2018
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Abstract
- Introduction: Higher levels of anxiety and depression have been found to be associated with greater difficulty in stopping smoking. This raises the question as to whether mood disturbance may be associated with exposure to, and use of, quitting support. Aims: This study examined whether General Practitioner (GP) advice and/or offer of support, or stop-smoking service use differed between smokers reporting or not reporting depression/anxiety. Methods: Data came from the Smoking Toolkit Study. Participants were 1,162 English adults who reported currently smoking or having stopped within the past 12 months, aged 40+ years, surveyed between April and September 2012. Anxiety/depression was assessed by the mood disturbance item of the EuroQol five dimensions questionnaire (EQ-5D). This was compared to recall of GP quit advice and/or support, and stop-smoking aid use adjusting for age, gender, and social grade. Results/Findings: Smokers reporting depression/anxiety were more likely to recall being offered advice and support to stop smoking by their GP (OR = 1.50, 95% C.I. = 1.05–2.13). However, there were no significant differences in use of stop-smoking aids during the past year. Conclusions: Smokers reporting depression/anxiety are more likely to be offered stop-smoking support by their GPs, but this does not appear to translate into stop-smoking aid use, despite high motivation to quit. Given higher nicotine dependence in this group, mental health specific support may need to be offered, and more needs to be done to make this offer of aid attractive. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- SMOKING prevention
RESEARCH
SMOKING cessation
SOCIAL support
COUNSELING
PSYCHOTHERAPY patients
CONFIDENCE intervals
ELECTRONIC cigarettes
CROSS-sectional method
SELF-evaluation
MOTIVATION (Psychology)
ONE-way analysis of variance
HYPNOTISM
REGRESSION analysis
NICOTINE
SURVEYS
COMPARATIVE studies
MENTAL depression
PSYCHOSOCIAL factors
QUESTIONNAIRES
RESEARCH funding
SUPPORT groups
NICOTINE replacement therapy
DESCRIPTIVE statistics
CHI-squared test
ANXIETY
ODDS ratio
DATA analysis software
LOGISTIC regression analysis
SMOKING
WORLD Wide Web
SMOKING cessation products
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 18342612
- Volume :
- 13
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Journal of Smoking Cessation
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 175836651
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1017/jsc.2018.1