To Examine Smoking Behavior of Prisoners - 1

The University of Alabama at Birmingham

Status: Completed

Conditions: Smoking Behavior

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other; NIH

Identifiers

NCT00115674

K23-15774-1

NIDA-15774-1

5R01CA141663-03 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to understand the smoking behavior of female incarcerated smokers and to determine how smokers differ from non-smokers on measures of substance abuse, personality, criminal history, and mental illness

Enrollment: 360 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18 to 100 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• all smokers, non-smokers, and ex-smokers

Exclusion criteria

• inability to understand English and inability to be able to provide informed consent due to mental impairment