Disparities in Current Cigarette Smoking Among US Adults With Mental Health Conditions.
Prev Chronic Dis
; 19: E87, 2022 12 22.
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ABSTRACT
INTRODUCTION:
Prevalence of cigarette smoking is disproportionally high among US adults with mental health conditions. Adults with mental health conditions who smoke cigarettes are at increased risk for smoking-related illness and death compared with adults without mental health conditions.METHODS:
We analyzed pooled data from the 2019 and 2020 National Survey on Drug Use and Health to provide national estimates of current cigarette smoking prevalence among US adults aged 18 years or older who reported having in the past year any mental illness, serious mental illness, mild or moderate mental illness, serious psychological distress, and/or major depressive episode (N = 19,398) and state-level estimates for any mental illness.RESULTS:
Prevalence of cigarette smoking for serious mental illness was 27.2%; serious psychological distress and major depressive disorder, 25.0%; serious psychological distress, 24.5%; any mental illness, 22.8%; mild or moderate mental illness, 21.2%; and major depressive disorder, 17.6%. State-level cigarette smoking prevalence among adults with any mental illness ranged from 11.7% in Utah to 42.1% in Louisiana, with a median of 24.7%.CONCLUSION:
The prevalence of current cigarette smoking is higher among adults with any mental illness, psychological distress, and major depressive disorder than among those without any mental illness, especially among adults who are non-Hispanic American Indian or Alaska Native, Hispanic, lesbian, gay, or bisexual and among those who are experiencing poverty, are uninsured, or have been arrested and booked in the past year. Continued improvement in integration of smoking cessation interventions into mental health treatment, equitable implementation of comprehensive commercial tobacco control policies, and population-specific approaches could reduce cigarette smoking among adults with mental health conditions.
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Collection:
01-internacional
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Depressive Disorder, Major
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Cigarette Smoking
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Mental Disorders
Type of study:
Diagnostic_studies
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Prevalence_studies
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Risk_factors_studies
Limits:
Adult
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Female
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Humans
Country/Region as subject:
America do norte
Language:
En
Journal:
Prev Chronic Dis
Journal subject:
SAUDE PUBLICA
Year:
2022
Document type:
Article