None listed
Conditions
Brief summary
1. To identify the prevalence of smoking and the potential impact upon patients entering into a non-smoking mental health environment. 2. To identify possible changes in patient refusal for admission / discharge due to smoking restrictions, and on the potential for a change in the ratio of voluntary / involuntary admissions. 3. To identify the relationship between the impact of staff implementing the smoking cessation policy and possible violence against staff & behavioural patient management 4. Establish baseline status of prescribed medications whose actions are known to be modified by smoking
Interventions
Observational study pre-introduction of a non-smoking policy in public hospitals in Western Australia. The initial phase is collecting data from inpatients on mental health wards on history of smoking, attitude to the proposed smoking ban and anticipated consequences of the introduction of the ban. Data collection: 3-4 weeks May-June 2007. (Further data collection is dependent of further funding.)
Sponsors
University of Western Australia, School of Psychiatry & Clinical Neurosciences
Study design
Masking
Open (masking not used)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
Mental health inpatients at 3 Western Australia hospitals (Bentley, Fremantle and Sir Charles Gairdner Hospitals). Consent by medical staff, English speaking, patient consent.
Exclusion criteria
not matching inclusion criteria.
Outcome results
None listed