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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 April 2020
Several studies suggest that severe mental illness is associated with tobacco smoking.
In this study, we measure the frequency of tobacco smokers in a sample of 149 severe mental illness inpatients. We compare the tobacco smoking rate with the general population one and with other studies rates.
65 (43%) of the 149 patients were female and 84 (57%) male. The main diagnoses of the studied population was schizophrenia (80%).The main finding was that according to other studies, the percentage of smokers in our hospital 65 (43%) was consistently high and greater than in general population. Only 9 (13%) of the smokers group were women.
Tobacco smoking rate is higher in psychiatric inpatients than in general population.
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