Experiences Using Family or Peer Support for Smoking Cessation and Considerations for Support Interventions: A Qualitative Study in Persons With Mental Health Conditions.

The current study aimed to understand how people with mental health conditions who currently smoke or recently quit engaged with family members or peers when quitting and assessed interest in involving family or peers in cessation interventions. Adults with mental health conditions who smoke or had quit within the past 5 years were recruited from publicly funded mental health programs ( = 24). We conducted virtual qualitative interviews between November 2020 and August 2021 and analyzed the data using the rapid thematic analytic approach.

Use of a Rapid Qualitative Method to Inform the Development of a Text Messaging Intervention for People With Serious Mental Illness Who Smoke: Formative Research Study.

Background: People with serious mental illness are disproportionately affected by smoking and face barriers to accessing smoking cessation treatments in mental health treatment settings. Text-based interventions are cost-effective and represent a widely accessible approach to providing smoking cessation support.

Objective: We aimed to identify key factors for adapting text-based cessation interventions for people with serious mental illness who smoke.

A Challenging Yet Motivating Journey: The Experiences of Young Adult Parents With Serious Mental Health Conditions in the USA.

In recent decades the average age of becoming a parent has increased, the rate of teen pregnancies has decreased, and a new developmental period of emerging adulthood is marked by diverse pathways into adulthood. Today, those who become parents in young adulthood (18-24 years old) and their children may be vulnerable to poor outcomes observed in teen parents (13-19 years old) of previous generations. Young adults with serious mental health conditions (SMHC) who encounter additional challenges navigating young adulthood and tend to parent earlier than their peers may be at particularly increased risk of poor outcomes.

Evaluating Educational and Employment Services for Young People With Psychiatric Conditions: A Systematic Review.

Objective: The authors conducted a systematic review of studies evaluating vocational interventions for young people with psychiatric conditions to determine the extent to which services were adapted for young people and whether services promoted gains in postsecondary education and employment.

Methods: Five databases (PubMed, PsycINFO, Web of Science, Academic Search Premier, and ERIC) were searched. Sources eligible for inclusion were controlled studies published between 2000 and mid-2020 that evaluated a vocational intervention and examined postsecondary educational or employment outcomes for youths or young adults (ages 14-35 years) with psychiatric conditions.