[Previous and current use profile of psychiatric and general population].

Objetive: To describe and to compare the previous and the current tobacco use profile between psychiatric population of secondary and tertiary levels of care and general population of basic health care.

Methods: Descriptive epidemiological/analytical cross sectional study with 378 participants from three Brazilian health services: a) Basic Unity of Health (BUH); b) Mental Health Ambulatory (MHA); c) Psychiatric Hospital (PH). The answers provided during individual interviews were registred in mobile device.

Stages of the Smoke-Free Policy Implementation in a Psychiatric Hospital: Evolution, Effects, and Complications.

The Smoke-free Policy represents a challenge in mental health services. To compare the stages of a smoke-free policy in a psychiatric hospital, according to the prevalence of smokers, hospital admission acceptance by hospitalized people, psychiatric complications, and the prescription of psychotropic drugs. Cross-sectional study was conducted with a comparison before and after implementing the Smoke-free Policy in a psychiatric hospital.

Hospital indicators and inpatient behavior in a psychiatric hospital that implemented the smoking ban.

Objective: to compare hospitalization and discharge indicators, medication costs and patient behavior before and after the implementation of the smoking ban in a psychiatric hospital.

Method: ecological, longitudinal and retrospective study carried out in a psychiatric hospital. Secondary data referring to 2142 hospitalizations were collected from medical records.

Nurses' beliefs, attitudes, and opinions regarding a smoking ban in a psychiatric hospital.

Purpose: This study aims to identify the beliefs, attitudes, and opinions of nursing professionals associated with tobacco smoking and its prohibition in a psychiatric hospital in Brazil.

Methods: Using a cross-sectional epidemiologic study, a total of 73 nursing professionals in a smoke-free psychiatric hospital were interviewed. The Varimax Rotation and the Fisher's exact test at a 5% significance level were used to analyze the responses.

Prevalence and Epidemiological Profile of Smokers in the Psychiatric Population and General Population: Smokers in Psychiatric Population.

This study aims to estimate the prevalence of smokers living in Brazil who use outpatient and hospital psychiatric services and outpatient services in primary health care services. It also aims to identify the sociodemographic and clinical factors associated with current smoking in these samples. This is a cross-sectional study with 378 participants from a Brazilian city: P1, persons from the mental health outpatient service; and P2, persons from the psychiatric hospital; P3, general population from the primary healthcare center.

Prevalence and smokers' profile: comparisons between the psychiatric population and the general population.

Objectives: to identify the prevalence of smokers between the psychiatric population and the general population; to compare the personal, socio-demographic and clinical profile of smokers and non-smokers in the psychiatric population and the general population; to compare the reasons for smoking of these two population groups.

Method: this is a cross-sectional descriptive-analytical epidemiological study with 378 patients from three services: Ambulatory Mental Health, Psychiatric Hospital, and Basic Health Unit. Interviews were conducted with three questionnaires.

Opinions of Hospitalized Patients with Mental Disorders and Patients in Basic Health Units in Brazil Regarding Tobacco Smoking.

This study aims to investigate the opinions of psychiatric patients and the general population on the smoking ban in health service facilities. A cross-sectional study was carried out in a mental health outpatient care unit (MHOC; n = 126), a psychiatric hospital (PH; n = 126), and a basic health unit (BHU; n = 126). The participants in the hospital were less in favor of the smoking ban compared with those attending out-of-hospital units (MHOC, 84%; PH, 69%; and BHU, 100%).

Tobacco addiction in the psychiatric population and in the general population.

Objective: To estimate the degree of tobacco addiction and identify independently associated factors by comparing the psychiatric population of secondary and tertiary care with the general population of the primary healthcare network.

Method: This is a cross-sectional epidemiological study, conducted in a municipality of São Paulo, with 134 smokers of a Mental Health Outpatient Unit (MHOU), a Psychiatric Hospital (PH), and a Primary Healthcare Unit (PHU). Data were collected by means of individual interviews, recorded on a mobile device.

Development of the TabacoQuest app for computerization of data collection on smoking in psychiatric nursing.

Objective: to develop a mobile app for research on the use of tobacco among psychiatric patients and the general population.

Method: applied research with the technological development of an app for data collection on an Android tablet. For its development, we considered three criteria: data security, benefits for participants and optimization of the time of researchers.

The decreasing number of cigarettes during psychiatric hospitalization: intervention or punishment?

Unlabelled: The smoking ban during psychiatric hospitalization provokes personal and institutional changes.

Objective: To identify the mental disorders carriers' perception, the smokers ones, about the decreasing number of cigarettes during psychiatric hospitalization.

Method: Exploratory study with 96 hospitalized carriers of mental disorders who are smokers: G1 (34 subjects hospitalized when was allowed one cigarette by hour) and G2 (62 subjects hospitalized when it was reduced to eight cigarette by day).

Nicotine dependence in the mental disorders, relationship with clinical indicators, and the meaning for the user.

Objective: to identify the degree of nicotine dependence among patients with schizophrenia and other mental disorders hospitalized in a general hospital, correlating these indices with clinical indicators and the meaning for the user.

Method: the study was performed in the psychiatric unit of a general hospital, interviewing 270 patients with mental disorders using a questionnaire and the application of the Fagerstrom test. A descriptive statistical analysis of the data and thematic analysis of the content were performed.

[The opinion of patients with mental disorder about tobacco and its prohibition in psychiatric hospitalization].

Objective: To identify the opinion of patients with mental disorder about tobacco and its prohibition during psychiatric hospitalization.

Method: An exploratory study with 96 patients smokers with mental disorders hospitalized in a psychiatric ward of a general hospital. The interviews were conducted individually, using an instrument designed for this study.

[Sociodemographic profile of smokers admitted to the psychiatric ward of a general hospital].

From the interest of health professionals in tobacco control, stood out its high frequency in psychiatric population. This paper aimed to identify the socio-demographic profile of psychiatric patients who are also smokers, comparing with former smokers and non smokers. Exploratory survey, conducted from August 2010 to February 2012, involving psychiatric patients hospitalized in a general hospital, through interviews using a structured questionnaire.

[An elderly couple and their long life raising four schizophrenic children].

The objective was to identify, among parents of schizophrenics, elements of their daily life in coping with the disorder and the care offered and received through the health system. This is a field research, using thematic oral history. The parents of four patients with schizophrenia took part in this study.