Supporting mental health service users to stop smoking: findings from a process evaluation of the implementation of smokefree policies into two mental health trusts.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Life expectancy is 10-20 years lower among people with a severe mental health disorder. Most of these early deaths are due to chronic conditions, including cardiovascular and respiratory diseases. Smoking is a major risk factor for these conditions and introducing smokefree policies has been recommended to mental health service providers in England by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), in their Public Health Guideline 48: Smoking: acute, maternity and mental health services. This paper reports a process evaluation of introducing these policy recommendations, which were updated in 2013.

Method

Process data were collected through semi-structured interviews with staff (n = 51), members of partnering organisations (n = 5), service users (n =

SUBMITTER: Jones SE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7594274 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature