A case for identifying smoking in presentations to the emergency department with suicidality

Title: A case for identifying smoking in presentations to the emergency department with suicidality
Creator: Wilhelm, Kay; Handley, Tonelle; Reddy, Prasuna
Relation: Australasian Psychiatry Vol. 26, Issue 2, p. 176-180
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1039856218757638
Publisher: Sage
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2018
Description: Objectives: The aim of this study was to identify mental health and lifestyle factors predicting smoking among people at high risk of suicidal behaviour. Methods: Participants (n = 363) completed self-report mental health and lifestyle measures at first appointment in a hospital clinic following presentation to the emergency department for deliberate self-harm or suicidal ideation. Results: The rate of daily smoking in this group, 61.4%, is more than four times the rate observed in the general population. Those with a history of previous deliberate self-harm were twice as likely to be smokers. Each one-point increase in poor health behaviours increased the odds of smoking by 22%. Conclusions: Identifying and managing smoking and related lifestyle behaviours are important considerations in routine clinical assessments.
Subject: smoking; deliberate self-harm; ED clinic intervention
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1411025
Identifier: uon:36272
Identifier: ISSN:1039-8562
Rights: © 2018 Reprinted by permission of SAGE Publications.
Language: eng
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