Smoking, Preparing the Patient with a Severe Mental Disorder for Change

Abstract

Introduction

Smoking is a serious health problem for people with mental illness like the bipolar disorder patients. The developmental of motivational tools such as brief intervention it is necessary in the context of community care.

Objectives

Evaluating the change in motivational stage after brief intervention and evaluating the clinical and smoking factors in relation with this.

Methods

Two hundred and twenty patients diagnosed with bipolar disorder (according DSM-5 criteria) that were in the euthymic phase (defined as less than 7 points in YMRS and 10 points in HDRS) and attended the community care centers of three provinces of Andalusia (Spain). Patients who consumed in the last month qualified for the level of motivation for change (measured by URICA scale).

Results

After brief intervention the 29.3% of the smoking patients change in their motivational stage. The results of the multivariate analysis showed three factors in relation with dificultar the progression of the evolution of motivation to change. The high punctuation in Hamilton anxiety scale (OR = 0.53; IC95%, P = 0.002), the high puntuation in the Fageström scale (OR = 0.56, IC95%, P = 0.01), and have high autoperception of the capacity of change (OR = 0.52; IC95%, P = 0.002).

Conclusions

The anxiety (measure with Hamilton anxiety scale) plus factors in relation with smoking, like the puntuation in Fagestrom scale and the autoperception of the capacity of change decrease the possibilities to change.

Disclosure of interest

The authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.