Evaluating screening performances of the Fagerstrom tolerance questionnaire, the Fagerstrom test for nicotine dependence and the heavy smoking index among Taiwanese male smokers

Journal of Clinical Nursing

Volumn 17, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 884-890

  Huang, Chih Ling ^a,b   Lin, Hsi Hui ^b   Wang, Hsiu Hung ^a,c  

^a KAOHSIUNG MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b CHANG JUNG CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c Kaohsiung Medical University ^*  (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Fagerstrom test for nicotine dependence; Fagerstrom tolerance questionnaire; Heavy Smoking Index; Nicotine dependence; Nurses; Receiver operating characteristic analyses

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; NICOTINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOMETRY; QUESTIONNAIRE; ROC CURVE; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; TAIWAN; TOBACCO DEPENDENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AREA UNDER CURVE; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; NICOTINE; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; ROC CURVE; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; TAIWAN; TOBACCO USE DISORDER;

EID: 40449115921     PISSN: 09621067     EISSN: 13652702     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2702.2007.02054.x     Document Type: Article

References (40)

1. Abelin LS, Buchler A, Muller P Vesanen K (1989) Controlled trial of transdermal nicotine patch in tobacco withdrawal. The Lancet 1, 7 10.
2. Benowitz NL Jacob P (1994) Metabolism of nicotine to cotinine studied by a dual stable isotope method. Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics 56, 483 493.
3. Benowitz NL, Jacob P, Ahijevych K, Jarvik M, Hall S, LeHouezec J, Hansson A, Lichtenstein E, Henningfield JE, Tsoh J, Hurt RD Velicer WF (2002) Biochemical verification of tobacco use and cessation. Nicotine & Tobacco Research 4, 149 159.
4. Benowitz NL, Lessov-Schlaggar CN, Swan GE Jacob PR (2006) Female sex and oral contraceptive use accelerate nicotine metabolism. Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics 79, 480 488.
5. Chabrol H, Niezborala M, Chastan E de Leon J (2005) Comparison of the Heavy Smoking Index and of the Fagerstrom test for nicotine dependence in a sample of 749 cigarette smokers. Addictive Behaviors 30, 1474 1477.
6. Colby SM, Tiffany ST, Shiffman S Niaura RS (2000) Measuring nicotine dependence among youth: a review of available approaches and instruments. Drug and Alcohol Dependence 59, S23 S39.
7. Curvall M, Vala EK, Enzell CR Wahren J (1990) Simulation and evaluation of nicotine intake during passive smoking: cotinine measurements in body fluid of nonsmokers given intravenous infusions of nicotine. Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics 47, 42 49.
8. Deheinzelin D, Lourenco MT, Costa CL Younes RN (2005) The level of nicotine dependence is an independent risk factor for cancer: a case control study. Clinics 60, 221 226.
9. Diaz FJ, Jane M, Salto E, Pardell H, Salleras L, Pinet C De Leon J (2005) A brief measure of high nicotine dependence for busy clinicians and large epidemiological surveys. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry 39, 161 168.
10. Etzel RA (1990) A review of the use of saliva cotinine as a marker of tobacco smoke exposure. Preventive Medicine 19, 190 197.
11. Fagerstrom KO (1978) Measuring degree of physical dependence to tobacco smoking with reference to individualization of treatment. Addictive Behaviors 3, 235 241.
12. Fagerstrom KO Schneider NG (1989) Measuring nicotine dependence: a review of the Fagerstrom Tolerance Questionnaire. Journal of Behavioral Medicine 12, 159 182.
13. Fagerstrom KO, Heatherton TF Kozlowski LT (1992) Nicotine addiction and its assessment. Ear, Nose and Throat Journal 69, 763 768.
14. Fagerstrom KO, Kunze M, Schoberberger R, Breslau N, Hughes JR, Hurt RD, Puska P, Ramstrom L Zatonski W (1996) Nicotine dependence versus smoking prevalence: comparisons among countries and categories of smokers. Tobacco Control 5, 52 56.
15. Galvin K, Webb C Hillier V (2001) Assessing the impact of a nurse-led health education intervention for people with peripheral vascular disease who smoke: the use of physiological markers, nicotine dependence and withdrawal. International Journal of Nursing Studies 38, 91 105.
16. Heatherton TF, Kozlowski LT, Frecker RC, Rickert W Robinson J (1989) Measuring the heaviness of smoking: using self-reported time to the first cigarette of the day and number of cigarettes smoked per day. British Journal of Addiction 84, 791 800.
17. Heatherton TF, Kozlowski LT, Frecker RC Fagerstrom KO (1991) The Fagerstrom test for nicotine dependence: a revision of the Fagerstrom tolerance questionnaire. British Journal of Addiction 86, 1119 1127.
18. Henningfield JE, Cohen C Pickworth WB (1993) Psychopharmacology of nicotine. In Nicotine Addiction: Principles and Management (Orleans CT Slade J eds). Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 24 45.
19. Huang CL, Lin HH Wang HH (2006a) Psychometric evaluation of the Chinese version of the Fagerstrom Tolerance Questionnaire as a measure of cigarette dependence. Journal of Advanced Nursing 55, 596 603.
20. Huang CL, Lin HH Wang HH (2006b) The psychometric properties of the Chinese version of the Fagerstrom test for nicotine dependence. Addictive Behaviors 31, 2324 2327.
21. Hudmon KS, Kilfoy BA Prokhorov AV (2006) The epidemiology of tobacco use and dependence. Critical Care Nursing Clinics of North America 18, 1 11.
22. Hughes JR, Oliveto AH, Tiggs R, Kenny M, Liguori A, Pillitteri JL Maclaughlin MA (2004) Concordance of different measures of nicotine dependence: two pilot studies. Addictive Behaviors 29, 1527.
23. Jonsdottir H, Jonsdottir R, Geirsdottir T, Sveinsdottir SK Sigurdardottir T (2004) Multicomponent individualized smoking cessation intervention for patients with lung disease. Journal of Advanced Nursing 48, 594 604.
24. Kapusta ND, Ramskogler K, Hertling I, Schmid R, Dvorak A, Walter H Lesch OM (2005) Epidemiology of substance use in a representative sample of 18-year-old males. Alcohol and Alcoholism 41, 188 192.
25. Kawakami N, Takatsuka N, Inaba S Shimizu H (1999) Development of a screening questionnaire for tobacco/nicotine dependence according to ICD-10, DSM-III-R and DSM-IV. Addictive Behaviors 24, 155 166.
26. Kozlowski LT, Porter CQ, Orleans CT, Pope MA Heatherton TF (1994) Predicting smoking cessation with self-reported measures of nicotine dependence: FTQ, FTND and HSI. Drug and Alcohol Dependence 34, 211 216.
27. Landis JR Koch GG (1977) The measurement of observer agreement for categorical data. Biometrics 33, 159 174.
28. Lang TA Secic M (1997) How to Report Statistics in Medicine. American College of Physicians, Philadelphia, PA.
29. de Leon J, Diaz FJ, Becona E, Gurpegui M, Jurado D Gonzalez-Pinto A (2003) Exploring brief measures of nicotine dependence for epidemiological surveys. Addictive Behaviors 28, 1481 1486.
30. Mallin R (2002) Smoking cessation: integration of behavioral and drug therapies. American Family Physician 65, 1107 1114.
31. Mikami I, Akechi T, Kugaya A, Okuyama T, Nakano T, Okamura H, Yamawaki S Uchitomi Y (1999) Screening for nicotine dependence among smoking-related cancer patients. Japanese Journal of Cancer Research 90, 1071 1075.
32. Moolchan ET, Radzius A, Epstein DH, Uhl G, Gorelick DA, Cadet JL Henningfield JE (2002) The Fagerstrom test for nicotine dependence and the diagnostic interview schedule: Do they diagnose the same smokers? Addictive Behaviors 27, 101 113.
33. Murray RP, Connett JE, Lauger GG Voelker HT (1993) Error in smoking measures: effects of intervention on relations of cotinine and carbon monoxide to self-reported smoking. American Journal of Public Health 83, 1251 1257.
34. Niu T, Chen C, Ni J, Wang B, Fang Z, Shao H Xu X (2000) Nicotine dependence and its familial aggregation in Chinese. International Journal of Epidemiology 29, 248 252.
35. Payne TJ, Smith PO, McCracken LM, McSherry WC Antony MM (1994) Assessing nicotine dependence: a comparison of the Fagerstrom Tolerance Questionnaire (FTQ) with the Fagerstrom test for nicotine dependence (FTND) in a clinical sample. Addictive Behaviors 19, 307 317.
36. Stevens KR Munoz LR (2004) Cigarette smoking: evidence to guide measurement. Research in Nursing & Health 27, 281 292.
37. Swan GE, Habina K, Means B, Jobe J Esposito JL (1993) Saliva cotinine and recent smoking-evidence for a nonlinear relationship. Public Health Reports 108, 779 783.
38. US Department of Health and Human Services (1988) The health consequences of smoking: Nicotine addiction. A report of the Surgeon General. (CDC 88-8406). Public Health Service, Center for Disease Control, Center for Health Promotion and Education, Office on Smoking and Health, Washington, DC.
39. Velicer WF, Prochaska JO, Rossi JS Snow MG (1992) Assessing outcome in smoking cessation studies. Psychological Bulletin 111, 23 41.
40. Youdan B Queally B (2005) Nurses' role in promoting and supporting smoking cessation. Nursing Times 101, 26 27.