[What patients think about the living together of smokers and non-smokers on psychiatric wards?].
OBJECTIVE
The results of an inquiry about the difficulties of companionship between smokers and non-smokers in psychiatric wards are presented.


METHODS
Patients stated at the end of their treatment in a routine inquiry, by now focused on the issue of smoking, how they felt about the organization of their living together within the wards. Smokers have been additionally asked whether they would have preferred to be abstinent of tobacco and whether they missed supplementary therapy offers.


RESULTS
About 70 per cent of the patients were smokers. The arrangement, giving permission to smoking in just one room of the ward, was agreed more or less by smokers and non-smokers. 30 per cent of the non-smokers would apply for a non-smoking ward. About 40 per cent of the smokers would prefer to stop smoking and missed suitable therapeutical offers.


CONCLUSIONS
Restriction to just one room for smokers in each ward is accepted by smokers and non-smokers. A therapeutical offer to withdrawing from tobacco should figure among the routine offers of each hospital.
Fähndrich
Erdmann
E
Klinik für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie, Vivantes Klinikum Neukölln, Berlin.
Kieser
Christian
C
D000328:Adult; D001604:Berlin; D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D003419:Crisis Intervention; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000523:psychology / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D008875:Middle Aged; D010342:Patient Acceptance of Health Care; D017060:Patient Satisfaction; D011567:Psychiatric Department, Hospital; D012907:Smoking / Q000523:psychology*; D016540:Smoking Cessation / Q000523:psychology*; D014028:Tobacco Smoke Pollution
D014028:Tobacco Smoke Pollution