[The prevalence of smoking in psychiatric patients. The effect of "institutionalization"].
The prevalence and other parameters concerning tobacco smoking were assessed in 100 outpatients with psychiatric disorders of axis I and II, according to DSM-III R criteria, and compared with those of 85 male psychiatric inpatients with forensic problems, recruited in a psychiatric hospital. The use of tobacco smoking was increased in psychiatric outpatients vs. the general pupulation and was very heightened in schizophrenic, as reported in earlier investigations; in the forensic sample both schizophrenic and non schizophrenic patients showed a very high prevalence. Therefore, the factor "institutionalization" does not modify the prevalence of tobacco smoking in schizophrenic--whose "smoking disposition" appears independent of the different social environments--while increasing the use in non schizophrenic patients. The positive correlation between tobacco smoking and schizophrenia is largely supported by these data and demands further investigation of its pathophysiologic mechanisms.
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Unità Operativa di Psichiatria, USL n. 18, Empoli, Firenze.
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D000328:Adult; D006801:Humans; D007326:Institutionalization; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000150:complications*; D015995:Prevalence; D012907:Smoking / Q000453:epidemiology*
La prevalenza del fumo di tabacco nei pazienti psichiatrici. L'influenza dell'istituzionalizzazione.