Intellectual

Intellectual well-being is the ability to constantly expand upon one’s own knowledge through creative and stimulating activities and experiences and to share what is already known with others. It is the exercising of the mind.
A cross-sectional analysis of factors associated with the intention to engage in tobacco treatment among inpatients in a state psychiatric hospital.
WHAT IS KNOWN ON THE SUBJECT?: People admitted to psychiatric facilities have high rates of tobacco use and hospitalizations present an opportunity for patients to have conversations… Read more
A crosssectional examination of factors associated with compassion satisfaction and compassion fatigue across health care workers in an Academic Medical Center
Compassion satisfaction (CS) among healthcare professionals is a sense of gratification derived from caring for their suffering patients. In contrast, compassion fatigue, often a consequence of Read more
A retrospective analysis of the comparative effectiveness of smoking cessation medication among individuals with mental illness in community-based mental health and addiction treatment settings.
Persons with different mental illnesses smoke for reasons based on their particular diagnosis… Read more
A retrospective analysis of the outcomes of smoking cessation pharmacotherapy among persons with mental health and substance use disorders.
It is common practice to individualize smoking cessation pharmacotherapy based on clinical judgment and patient response… Read more
A Systematic Review of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual Diagnostic Criteria for Nicotine Dependence.
The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual diagnostic criteria for nicotine dependence (DSM-ND) are based on the proposition that dependence is a syndrome that can be diagnosed only when a minimum of 3 of Read more
Assessing opinions and barriers to providing evidence-based tobacco treatment among health care providers within an in-patient psychiatric facility
Tobacco-related morbidity and mortality is high among people with mental illnesses (PMI), yet tobacco treatment (TT) is often not provided by mental health care providers (MHPs)… Read more
Color Conscience: A Move Toward Anti-racism. Critical Care
We write this editorial at a time of great civil unrest in the United States, following the public murder of George Floyd, an unarmed Black man who was killed by Minneapolis police officers, and Read more
Correlates of posttraumatic growth among nursing professionals: A cross-sectional analysis
Aims: Among nursing professionals, our aims were to examine (a) self-reported traumatic experiences, (b) differences in post-traumatic growth (i.e. positive psychological growth after experiencing a Read more
Design of a Community Based Lung Cancer Education, Prevention and Screening Program
Uptake of low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) for lung cancer screening is extremely low… Read more
Factors Associated with Nursing School Satisfaction, NCLEX Success, and Intent to Pursue Advanced Education Among Underrepresented Accelerated Nursing Students
The United States is steadily becoming more diverse. If current trends continue, the minority population will be the majority by 2043… Read more
Factors associated with staff engagement in patients’ tobacco treatment in a state psychiatric facility.
Persons with mental illnesses (MI) who use tobacco are likely to experience poorer physical health and worsened psychiatric symptomology as compared to their non–tobacco-using counterparts… Read more
Factors associated with tobacco cessation attempts among inpatients in a psychiatric hospital
Introduction Several effective evidence-based tobacco treatment approaches can optimize cessation attempts; however, little is known about the utilization of such strategies by people with mental Read more
Implementing SBIRT (Screening, Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment) in primary care: lessons learned from a multi-practice evaluation portfolio
SBIRT was found to be an effective approach in empowering health care providers in identifying people at risk of developing substance use problem... Read more
Letter to the Editor. Re: A Lifestyle Intervention Study in Patients with Diabetes or Impaired Glucose Tolerance: Translation of a Research Intervention into Practice
I read with interest the research article by Matvienko and Hoehns.1 The overarching goal of the study was timely and consistent with the recent paradigm shift… Read more
Nicotine dependence and gender differences in smokers accessing community mental health services.
Despite evidence of differences in smoking behavior between women and men, few studies have assessed these differences in individuals with mental illnesses… Read more
Patient Web Portals, Disease Management, and Primary Prevention
Efforts aimed at health care reform and continued advances in information technologies have prompted interest among providers and researchers in patient web portals… Read more
Predictors of smoking cessation among individuals with a history of co-occurring substance use and psychiatric disorders
Individuals with substance use and psychiatric disorders have a high prevalence of tobacco use disorders and are disproportionately affected by tobacco-related morbidity and mortality… Read more
Prevalence and factors of compassion fatigue among Chinese psychiatric nurses: A cross-sectional study
Compassion fatigue has emerged as a detrimental consequence of experiencing work-related stress among psychiatric nurses, and affected the job performance, emotional and physical health of Read more
Promoting Community Awareness of Lung Cancer Screening among Disparate Populations: Results of the cancer-Community Awareness Access Research and Education (c-CARE) Project
Lung cancer is the no. 1 cause of cancer death in the United States. Racial/ethnic minority and medically underserved populations suffer higher mortality than whites… Read more
Providing tobacco treatment in a community mental health setting: A pilot study.
Individuals with mental illnesses (MIs) are disproportionately affected by tobacco-related disease burden because of higher tobacco use prevalence and poor tobacco treatment outcomes… Read more
Reasons for tobacco use and perceived tobacco-related health risks in an inpatient psychiatric population.
People with mental illness (MI) have a disproportionate tobacco-related disease burden and mortality… Read more
Sex differences in nicotine dependence among addictions clients accessing a smoking cessation program in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
The purpose of this study was to examine differences in substance use disorders, psychiatric disorders and nicotine dependence among 323 women and men accessing a smoking cessation program… Read more
Sex differences in smoking cessation outcomes of a tailored program for individuals with substance use disorders and mental illness.
Tobacco use is highly prevalent among individuals with a history of substance use disorders (SUD) and/or mental illness (MI)… Read more
Smoking behaviors and medical comorbidities in patients with mental illnesses. Archives of Psychiatric Nursing
Correlations among smoking behaviors and co-morbid medical illnesses were examined among 982 smokers with mental illnesses enrolled in a smoking cessation program within Mental Health and Addictions Read more
Smoking Cessation among Persons with Co-occurring Substance Use Disorder and Mental Illness.
Aims: A history of either a substance use disorder (SUD) or psychiatric disorder (PD) is associated with tobacco use… Read more
Smoking cessation outcomes among individuals with substance use and/or psychiatric disorders.
Individuals with substance use and psychiatric disorders have a high prevalence of tobacco use disorders and are disproportionately affected by tobacco-related morbidity and mortality… Read more
Social Smoking Environment and Associations with Cardiac Rehabilitation Attendance
Purpose: Continued cigarette smoking after a major cardiac event predicts worse health outcomes and leads to reduced participation in cardiac rehabilitation (CR). Understanding which characteristics Read more
The Psychometric Properties of the Minnesota Tobacco Withdrawal Scale Among Patients with Mental Illness
Background and Objectives: Approximately 65% of psychiatric inpatients experience moderate-to-severe nicotine withdrawal (NW), a set of symptoms appearing within 24 hr after an abrupt cessation or Read more
Which types of tobacco treatment interventions work for people with schizophrenia? Provider and mental health consumer perspectives.
People with schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders (PWS) consume tobacco at high rates, resulting in disproportionate tobacco-related morbidity and mortality… Read more