Social networks of people with serious mental illness who smoke: potential role in a smoking cessation intervention.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Smoking is a major contributor to morbidity and mortality among individuals with serious mental illness (SMI) and social networks may play an important role in smoking behaviors.

Aims

Our objectives were to (1) describe the network characteristics of adults with SMI who smoke tobacco (2) explore whether network attributes were associated with nicotine dependence.

Methods

We performed a secondary analysis of baseline data from a tobacco smoking cessation intervention trial among 192 participants with SMI. A subgroup (n = 75) completed questions on the characteristics of their social network members. The network characteristics included network composition (e.g. proportion who smoke) and network structure (e.g. density of connections between members).

SUBMITTER: Meza BPL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11458813 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature