title: [Prevalence of cigarette smoking in psychiatric patients].
abstract: In opinion of the WHO, AIDS and smoking are the two major epidemies, and smoking is the most important avoidable risk for health. According to epidemiological studies, smoking is a relevant risk factors connected to different types of cancers, as well as respiratory, cardiovascular, and mother-infant pathologies. In Chile 7% of the death toll can be blamed on smoking. The present information about cigarette consumption was obtained from the clinical record of 297 in-patients, discharged from the Psychiatric Clinic, University of Chile, between the year 1983 and the year 1985. Prevalence of smoking is 66.7%, with no difference per sex. 9.6% patients smoke more than 20 cigarettes a day. The prevailing clinical diagnoses are: Drug addiction (alcoholism excluded), 96.6%; schizophrenia, 81.7%; and alcoholism, 73.2%. Smoking is associated to a background of alcohol abuse, 78.9%, as well as other drug abuses, 89.7%: In other words, this is a statistically significant difference. In this study, it was found out that psychiatric in-patients were smoking more heavily than the general population--41%, and more heavily than somatic in-patients as well--42%.
authors.affiliation: Clínica Psiquiátrica Universidad de Chile, Santiago.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Carvajal
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Passig
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: San Martin
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Zúñiga
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002677:Chile; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007297:Inpatients / Q000523:psychology; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012907:Smoking / Q000453:epidemiology*; D000074606:Smoking Prevention
vernacular_title: Prevalencia del consumo de cigarrillos en pacientes psiquiátricos.