- Title
- Smoking cessation care provision and support procedures in Australian community mental health centers
- Creator
- Anderson, Amy Elizabeth; Knight, Jenny A.; Bowman, Jenny; Wye, Paula M.; Terry, Margaret; Grimshaw, Sonya; Wiggers, John H.
- Relation
- Psychiatric Services Vol. 64, Issue 7, p. 707-710
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.201200213
- Publisher
- American Psychiatric Publishing
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2013
- Description
- Objective: The study assessed the association of supportive clinical systems and procedures with smoking cessation care at community mental health centers. Methods: Managers (N584) of community mental health centers in New South Wales, Australia, were asked to complete a survey during 2009 about smoking cessation care. Results: Of the 79 managers who responded, 56% reported that the centers assessed smoking for over 60% of clients, and 34% reported that more than 60% of clients received minimum acceptable smoking cessation care. They reported the use of guidelines and protocols (34%), the use of forms to record smoking status (65%), and the practice of always enforcing smoking bans (52%). Minimum acceptable smoking cessation care was associated with encouraging nicotine replacement therapy for staff who smoke (odds ratio [OR]59.42), using forms for recording smoking status (OR55.80), and always enforcing smoking bans (OR53.82). Conclusions: Smoking cessation care was suboptimal, and additional supportive systems and procedures are required to increase its delivery.
- Subject
- smoking cessation; mental health; community support; Australia
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1067549
- Identifier
- uon:18430
- Identifier
- ISSN:1075-2730
- Rights
- The official published article is available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.201200213
- Language
- eng
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