Rev Salud Publica (Bogota). 2023 Feb 3;21(4):430-438. doi: 10.15446/rsap.V21n4.67831.
ABSTRACT
OBJETIVE: To describe and to compare the previous and the current tobacco use profile between psychiatric population of secondary and tertiary levels of care and general population of basic health care.
METHODS: Descriptive epidemiological/analytical cross sectional study with 378 participants from three Brazilian health services: a) Basic Unity of Health (BUH); b) Mental Health Ambulatory (MHA); c) Psychiatric Hospital (PH). The answers provided during individual interviews were registred in mobile device. Data were submitted to descriptive statistics, Fischer’s exact test, analysis of variance and Kruskal-Wallis test.
RESULTS: In the PH all were daily smokers, noticing lower prevalence in MHA (94.1%) and in BUH (91.7%). Among the products utilized has highlighted manufactured cigarettes (98%), followed by roll-your-own cigarettes (39%). The average of cigarettes smoked per day (MHA=19,3, PH=25,3, BUH=17,2) and the percentage of multiple tobacco products users (MHA=28.1%, PH=55.3%, BUH=9.1%) were higher in PH. 73% of smokers exceed ≥ 4% of familiar income with tobacco. In PH were identified higher commitment. Smokers of PH were less advised to stop smoking (MHA=50%, PH=39.5%, BUH=50%).
CONCLUSION: The current tobacco use profile by psychiatric hospital smokers differs from the others. Besides higher tobacco dependency, they smoked a higher amount of cigarettes per day, compromised higher perceptual of personal income to buy tobacco and used multiples tobacco products as well as received less support to stop smoking.
PMID:36753266 | DOI:10.15446/rsap.V21n4.67831
