Psychiatric disorders and cigarette smoking among child and adolescent psychiatry inpatients.
We surveyed 120 patients admitted to a child and adolescent psychiatric inpatient unit regarding their cigarette smoking history, reasons for smoking, patterns of use, and psychiatric comorbidity (chart review). We administered the Social Phobia and Anxiety Inventory and the modified Fagerstrom Tolerance Questionnaire. Only six of 47 current smokers had a chart diagnosis of nicotine dependence. Logistic regression derived that the odds ratio for being a current smoker was: Caucasian race=5.56,older age=1.3, depressive disorders=4.02, conduct disorder (CD)=12.96, cannabis abuse/dependence=24.6. Hence, cigarette smoking is highly prevalent but underdiagnosed in this population.
Departments of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC 29425, USA. upadhyah@musc.edu
Himanshu P
HP
Upadhyaya
Kathleen T
KT
Brady
Mollie
M
Wharton
Jason
J
Liao
D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D015897:Comorbidity; D019955:Conduct Disorder / Q000523:psychology*; D003710:Demography; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007297:Inpatients / Q000523:psychology*; D016015:Logistic Models; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology*; D015995:Prevalence; D012907:Smoking / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000523:psychology; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires