Trends in cigarette use and health insurance coverage among US adults with mental health and substance use disorders.

ABSTRACT:

Aims

To estimate recent trends in cigarette use and health insurance coverage for United States adults with and without mental health and substance use disorders (MH/SUD).

Design

Event study analysis of smoking and insurance coverage trends among US adults with and without MH/SUD using 2008-19 public use data from the National Survey on Drug Use and Health, an annual, cross-sectional survey.

Setting

USA.

Participants

A nationally representative sample of non-institutionalized respondents aged 18-64 years (n = 448 762).

Measurements

Outcome variables were three measures of recent cigarette use and one measure of past-year health insurance coverage. We compared outcomes between people with and without MH/SUD (MH disorder: past-year mental illness, predicte

SUBMITTER: Creedon TB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11346593 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature