Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Kuitunen-Paul, Sören
• Teichmann, Marko
• Mühlig, Stephan
• Lochbühler, Kirsten
• Roessner, Veit
• Rustler, Christa
• Rüther, Tobias
• Smolka, Michael N
• Rabenstein, Andrea

Titel

Implementation of Tobacco Control Strategies in Psychiatric Institutions for Children and Adolescents: an Online Survey of Leading Staff Members

Ist Teil von

• Fortschritte der Neurologie-Psychiatrie, 2024-01, Vol.92 (1-02), p.19

Ort / Verlag

Germany

Erscheinungsjahr

2024

Quelle

MEDLINE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Tobacco control measures are relevant also in child and adolescent psychiatric institutions and their implementation in Germany will be assessed in this study. In an online survey, n=78 leading staff members responded to standardized questions assessing how smoking in patients was dealt in such institutions. The majority of institutions (70-87%) had smoking bans in the psychiatric clinic buildings and premises. Depending on the type of psychiatric ward, exceptions were in place in the form of a designated smoking area (38%), smoking pavilion (19%), or when patients suffered from certain mental disorders (28%). Documentation of violations of the ban varied with the type of ward (30-79%), while in most cases violations led to consequences (84-93%) including confiscation of smoking utilities (42-63%) or a curfew (25-38%). Smoking cessation aids were reported by 78% of the institutions, most often as consultations (64%). Pharmacological treatments for smoking were provided in inpatient wards (71-83%). One in two institutions documented the result of cessation attempts (54%). Smoking-related working groups (14%) or the use of standardized diagnostic instruments (0-4%) were much less frequently reported. We provide a first look at tobacco control policy measures in child and adolescent psychiatric institutions on a national scale. This allows us to derive future areas for tobacco control.