Ulfert Hapke

..2, CI 1.4-3.4; anxiety disorders: OR 2.9, CI 1.9-4.5). To conclude, nicotine dependence, alcohol dependence or abuse, depressive disorders, and anxiety disorders are related to two or more EDC in this adult general population sample...

..The study is aimed at investigating the influence of trauma type, pre-existing psychiatric disorders with an onset before trauma, and gender on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)...

..The aim of this study was to examine if problem drinkers have varying risks of having alcohol-related diseases according to their reported beverage consumed...

..Never-smokers were not included in the reference group of the nondependent subjects, but were analyzed as a third group...

..To test the effectiveness of a brief alcohol intervention among non-dependent general hospital inpatients with alcohol problems, delivered by either a specialized liaison service or hospital physicians...

..12). We conclude that psychiatric disorders may contribute to the prediction of a low self-rated GH...

..With particular emphasis on intention to utilize help, this study aims to detect predictors for alcohol-related help-seeking among a non-help-utilizing sample...

..To estimate proportions of alcohol problem drinking: alcohol use disorders (AUDs) and drinking above recommended levels among general hospital inpatients in northeastern Germany...

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..38; 95% CI: 0.17-0.84) and for remission from nicotine dependence (OR: 0.18; CI: 0.05-0.63). We conclude that persons suffering from PTSD might need comprehensive aid in smoking cessation...

..In particular, we tested whether persons with at-risk and heavy episodic drinking (ARHE) differ from those persons with at-risk drinking only (AR) and heavy episodic drinking only (HE)...

..To explore relationships of smoking and risk drinking status, nicotine and alcohol dependence, and anxiety, depressive, and somatoform disorders with overweight and obesity...

..Examination of the relation between clients' characteristics and the adherence to the principles of MI, and between adherence to the principles of MI and future smoking status...

..To examine which counseling behavior among GPs can be achieved after counseling training when organizational support is provided...

..To compare data from the general population on intentionally reduced smoking and smoking cessation...

..The objective of this study was to analyze motivation to change drinking behavior and motivation to seek help in general hospital inpatients with problem drinking and alcohol-related diseases...

..The aim of this prospective study was to identify predictors of utilizing formal and informal help among currently non-help-seeking individuals with alcohol use disorders...

..Little is known about the relationship between current and past smoking behaviour and the severity of alcohol dependence. The purpose was to explore the strength of this relationship...

..The goal was to analyze smoking, nicotine dependence, and depression cross-sectionally and to analyze whether or not depression predicts the sustenance of smoking after 3 years...

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..The aim of the present study is to investigate to what extent is the risk of diseases with different alcohol-attributable fractions (AAFs) predicted by daily alcohol consumption (> 120 g, 61-120 g vs 31-60 g)...

..To estimate probabilities of alcohol high-risk drinking, alcohol abuse and alcohol dependence on grounds of smoking-behaviour related variables and single nicotine dependence criteria...

..b) To identify grouping characteristics that can differentiate among those women. This could lead to the development of intervention strategies that are of different efficacy depending on the cluster the woman is member of...

..Our second hypothesis is that abstainers with a history of heavy drinking seek out more health services than those without heavy drinking histories...

..A related aim was to examine how, if at all, measures of dependence severity, use, and consequences were related to a composite measure depicting agreements and disagreements between general change readiness and help-seeking readiness...

..The goal of this study was to analyze whether there are associations between nicotine dependence including nicotine withdrawal with pain and the number of pain locations...

..This study's goals were to investigate the psychometric properties of the German Processes of Change (POC) scale and to refine a short version...

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..Nicotine dependence might function as a barrier to smoking cessation. Therefore, the goal was to determine whether single symptoms of nicotine dependence are related to the number of quit attempts and smoking status...

..Our data did not support an undermining effect associated with later reduction stages with respect to future quit attempts and progress within the cessation stages...

..39), and are more motivated to decrease alcohol consumption (ES: h = .45). The data suggest focusing research in more alcohol-related clinical settings and examining the relationship between smoking cessation and alcohol reduction...

..We conclude that nicotine dependence is increasing even after many years of smoking in an adult population sample...

..This study examined the pattern, direction, and magnitude of longitudinal relationships among the constructs involved in the Transtheoretical Model (TTM)...

..This is one of the few studies providing a longitudinal validation of the postulates of the TTM...

..Psychiatric disorders as defined by DSM-IV are found to be highly prevalent in the general population. However, little is known about aspects defining the burden caused by different disorders...

..Data are particularly lacking for a large range of ages. The goal was to describe the FTND sum score distribution in the adult population and to show potential variation according to the number of years of smoking...

..The goal of the present study was to analyse relationships of smoking and nicotine dependence with psychiatric disease and whether psychiatric disease predicts the sustaining of smoking after three years...

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..The conclusion is drawn that current nicotine or alcohol dependence, depressive, and anxiety disorders may add to short sleep duration in this random adult general population sample...

..To determine how the age at starting smoking, any quit attempts and the single nicotine dependence criteria are related to the lifetime amount of smoking...

..They concluded that IAW after quitting might be a specific determinant of the BMI increase following smoking cessation in a subgroup of smokers...

..We hypothesized that amongst primigravidae there are less current smokers, that the smokers consume less cigarettes per day, have less urge to smoke and that more stop smoking after delivery when compared with multigravidae...

..CONCLUSION: The efficacy of the intervention could not be demonstrated. Reasons may include oversampling of smokers who are interested in health-related topics but do not intend to quit, and power problems due to substantial attrition...

..to investigate the attitudes of midwives to counselling women about their smoking behaviour during pregnancy and postpartum...

..The goal of this study is to analyse the smoking of 'light' cigarettes according to the progress over the stages of change to stop or reduce smoking...

..To examine support for various smoking policies and tobacco control measures among lifetime smokers in a country with weak anti-smoking legislation and an underdeveloped anti-smoking climate...

..In our study, the last was tested in terms of the psychometric properties and compared with an alternative short form derived from the SOC-29...

..By using the stages of change concept and motivational interviewing, a classification of current and former smokers is given, and basic strategies and techniques are described to counsel women postpartum with regard to smoking...

..The transtheoretical model (TTM) with the proposed five stages of change (precontemplation, contemplation, preparation, action, maintenance) is used as the theoretical framework...

..The aim of this study was to provide evidence about the individual intention to quit smoking and accompanying characteristics in a country with a low amount of tobacco control (TC) provisions...

..This measure, the Treatment Readiness Tool (TReaT), was based on the transtheoretical model of behavior change...

..We sought to estimate excess mortality and to determine whether alcohol dependence treatment utilization, alcohol dependence severity, alcohol-related problems, and self-rated health may predict mortality over 14 years...

..TAAD rates may be used for the planning and practice of brief intervention and as an outcome measure for population-based intervention...

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..Chronic pain disorder is assumed to represent a frequent and disabling condition. However, data on the prevalence of somatoform pain symptoms and somatoform pain disorder in the community are limited to date...

..The proposed diagnosis of specific somatoform disorder demonstrated a high validity independent of comorbid depressive and anxiety disorders...

..To test the efficacy of an aid to cessation/relapse prevention intervention for women postpartum...

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..Subjects who never fulfilled criteria showed highest scores, those who did so within the last 12 months showed lowest scores. The other two group scored in between...

..g., according to smoking cessation. The effects are growing by time. Intervention that is focused at the promotion of change of health risk behaviors can add to the improvement of health care...

..The majority of those who quit return to smoking within 12 months. The aim of this study is to estimate smoking rates and to measure the urge to smoke and the motivation to change smoking behavior among women who recently delivered...

..To investigate properties and aspects of validity of the Readiness to Change Questionnaire (RCQ) when applied to hazardous drinking, alcohol-abusing or alcohol-dependent subjects sampled from the general population...

..The purpose of this article is to examine the impact of different treatment definitions on triggering and maintenance mechanisms of recovery...

..Implications for alcohol-related interventions are discussed...

..This paper examines the interaction of intention to change drinking behaviour with comorbid depression and anxiety in pro-actively recruited individuals with a range of drinking problems...

..Our goal was to analyze the retest reliability and validity of the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT) in a primary-care setting and recommend a cut-off value for the different alcohol-related diagnoses...

..Women showed lower scores and larger areas under the ROC curves. It is concluded that setting specific instruments (e.g. primary care or general population) or adjusted cut-offs should be used...

..To determine the stability of remission from alcohol dependence without formal help...

..However, little is known about the trajectories of these groups. The aim of the present study is to analyse the stability of these three groups report on longer-term outcomes...