Tobacco smoking and health-related quality of life among university students: Mediating effect of depression

Milić, Marija; Gazibara, Tatjana; Pekmezović, Tatjana; Tepavčević, Darija Kisić; Marić, Gorica; Popović, Aleksandra; Stevanović, Jasmina; Patil, Karamchand; Levine, Hagai

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“…While many healthcare professionals report high rates of burnout and poor mental health and wellbeing, it is likely that the student population is even more vulnerable to the development of mental health problems [ 40 , 41 , 42 , 43 ]. Several studies have reported that medical students have a poor mental health and a low access to adequate treatments [ 44 , 45 , 46 , 47 , 48 , 49 , 50 , 51 ]. Furthermore, the mean age of access to a medical school corresponds with the mean age of onset of many mental disorders.…”

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Mental Health Disturbances and Related Problems in Italian University Medical Students from 2000 to 2020: An Integrative Review of Qualitative and Quantitative Studies

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Background and objectives: The presence of mental health problems in the population of medical students in Italy has been evaluated in several cross-sectional studies, which have used different methodologies and study designs. However, a global overview of the prevalence of mental health problems in Italian medical students is not available, although this would be essential for promoting preventive strategies and supportive treatments. Materials and Methods: An integrative review aiming to describe the prevalence of mental health problems in Italian medical students has been performed. Results: The most relevant findings are the high prevalence of substance use, in particular alcohol and nicotine, and of depressive and anxiety disorders in Italian medical students. In particular, substance use ranges from 13 to 86%, which is higher compared to Italian students coming from other faculties. Italian medical students show a high rate of smoking and of depressive symptoms of about 20%. Conclusions: Our findings highlight the need to develop appropriate supportive interventions for the medical student population, which are rarely provided and implemented among the routine activities of Italian medical universities. A relevant aspect to be considered is the stigma and anticipated discrimination attached to mental disorders, which reduce the help-seeking process in medical students.

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Mental Health Disturbances and Related Problems in Italian University Medical Students from 2000 to 2020: An Integrative Review of Qualitative and Quantitative Studies

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“…Smoking has been associated with both poor and fair self-rated health status in various groups [12,14]. Previous literature has documented that smoking has a negative association with various measures of quality of life [8], including oral health [7], and a lower self-rated quality of life in the general population [9]. Viana and colleagues (2019) assessed quality of life among older adult smokers using the World Health Organization Quality of Life and Quality of Assessment for Older Adults.…”

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Smoking Status and Well-Being of Underserved African American Older Adults

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Cobb

Sandoval

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Purpose: This study investigated the association between current and past cigarette smoking, with four domains of well-being, namely, physical quality of life, mental quality of life, depressive symptoms, and self-rated health status (SRH), among older African American adults who lived in economically impoverished areas of South Los Angles. Methods: This community-based cross-sectional study included a convenience sample of economically-disadvantaged African Americans adults (n = 740) who were 55 years old and older residing in South Los Angeles. We conducted in-depth face-to-face interviews to collect data on the socioeconomic status (level of education and fiscal pressures), demographic factors (age and gender), physical health (number of chronic medical conditions), smoking (never smokers (reference group), past smokers, and current smokers), and well-being (quality of life, depressive symptoms, and self-rated health). Linear regressions were used to analyze the data. Results: Over 21% reported that they are current smokers, compared with 31% who identified as former smokers. Almost 40% perceived the quality of their health status to be fair or poor. Compared with non-smokers, current cigarette smokers reported a worse physical quality of life, depressive symptoms, and self-rated health. Current smokers also reported a marginally worse mental quality of life.

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“…The eight domains are physical functioning (PF), role limitations because of physical health problems (role-physical (RP)), bodily pain (BP), general health (GH) perceptions, vitality (VT), social functioning (SF), role limitations because of emotional problems (role-emotional (RE)) and general MH ( Ware & Sherbourne, 1992 ). The first four domains (PF, RP, BP and GH) constitute the physical health and the other four domains (VT, SF, RE and MH) constitute the MH ( Milic et al, 2020 ). The SF36 is widely used in health research and is validated and tested for reliability by several studies in Serbia ( Ilic et al, 2020 ; Stojanov et al, 2019 ; Ware & Sherbourne, 1992 ).…”

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Quality of sleep and health-related quality of life among health care professionals treating patients with coronavirus disease-19

Stojanov¹,

Malobabić

Stanojević

et al. 2020

Int J Soc Psychiatry

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Background: Health care professionals exposed to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) are facing high levels of stress. Aim: The aim was to evaluate the quality of sleep (QoS) and health-related quality of life (HRQoL), among health care professionals treating patients with COVID-19, as well as quantifying the magnitude of symptoms of depression and levels of anxiety. Methods: We included 201 health care professionals in a cross-sectional, web-based study by applying 7-item Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD-7) Scale, Zung Self-rating Depression Scale, 36-item Health Survey of the Medical Outcomes Study Short Form (SF36), Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) and additional survey constructed for the purpose of the study. Results: Health care workers who treated COVID-19 patients were more afraid of becoming infected or of transmitting the infection to a family member with a significantly low self-assessment of their mental status. Poor QoS and HRQoL correlated with high health anxiety and severe depressive symptoms and several demographic characteristics. Multiple linear regression analysis showed that higher scores on GAD-7 (beta = .71, p < .01) and lower scores on mental health (MH) subscale on SF36 questionnaire (beta = –.69; p < .01) were independent predictors of the higher PSQI score (adjusted R2 = .61, p < .01 for overall model). Higher scores on GAD-7 (beta = .68, p < .01) and worse self-perceived mental status (beta = .25; p < .05) were independent predictors of the lower SF36 scores (adjusted R2 = .73, p < .01 for overall model). Conclusion: The major MH burden of health care professionals treating infected patients during the COVID-19 pandemic indicates that they need psychological support.

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Tobacco smoking and health-related quality of life among university students: Mediating effect of depression

Cited by 44 publications

References 49 publications

Mental Health Disturbances and Related Problems in Italian University Medical Students from 2000 to 2020: An Integrative Review of Qualitative and Quantitative Studies

Mental Health Disturbances and Related Problems in Italian University Medical Students from 2000 to 2020: An Integrative Review of Qualitative and Quantitative Studies

Smoking Status and Well-Being of Underserved African American Older Adults

Quality of sleep and health-related quality of life among health care professionals treating patients with coronavirus disease-19

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