Comparing demographics, SOCRATES scores and motivation to change the smoking behaviors between current smokers from psychiatric and routine medical check-up services
Demographics
Psychiatric service
N = 24
Mean (SD) or n (%)
Check-up service
N = 83
Mean (SD) or n (%)
P-values
Age (years)
39.17 (10.30)
40.73 (13.46)
0.599
Marital status
0.572
Single
14 (58.3)
43 (51.8)
Married
10 (41.7)
40 (48.2)
Education
0.002*
≤ High school
21 (87.5)
44 (53.0)
> High school
3 (12.5)
39 (47.0)
Employment
1.000
No
2 (8.3)
6 (7.2)
Yes
22 (91.7)
77 (92.8)
SOCRATES scores
Overall
0.05 (1.12)
–0.01 (0.97)
0.790
Recognition
25.46 (7.14)
24.29 (6.27)
0.437
Ambivalence
14.63 (3.88)
14.58 (3.17)
0.952
Taking steps
26.63 (6.68)
27.11 (7.61)
0.779
Stages of change
0.546
Precontemplation
14 (58.3)
54 (65.1)
Contemplation or higher
10 (41.7)
29 (34.9)
*P < 0.01
Declarations
Author contributions
RK: Conceptualization, Writing—original draft, Writing—review & editing, Supervision. SS: Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing—original draft. AC: Investigation. WS: Investigation, Validation, Supervision. All authors read and approved the submitted version.
Conflicts of interest
The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest.
Ethical approval
The study was approved by the Institutional Review Board of the Chulalongkorn University Faculty of Medicine (No. 273/59). The study was carried out according to the ethical standards laid down in the Declaration of Helsinki of 1964 and its subsequent amendments or comparable ethical standards.
Consent to participate
Informed consent to participate in the study was obtained from all participants.
Consent to publication
Not applicable.
Availability of data and materials
The datasets generated and/or analyzed during the current study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.
Funding
This work was partially supported by the US National Institute of Health [R01 DA037974] and US National Institute of Health/Department of Health and Human Services [D43 TW009087/TW/FIC]. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
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