The Fagerström Test for Nicotine Dependence: Do revisions in the item scoring enhance the psychometric properties?

Korte, Kristina J.; Capron, Daniel W.; Zvolensky, Michael J.; Schmidt, Norman B.

doi:10.1016/j.addbeh.2012.10.013

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“…The FTND has shown good internal consistency and positive relations with key smoking variables (e.g., salivary cotinine; Heatherton et al, 1991; Payne et al, 1994). In the current study, the FTND showed lower internal consistency (α = .67), though this is consistent with the literature (Korte et al, 2013). …”

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confidence: 92%

Suicidality prospectively predicts greater urges to smoke following a cessation attempt: Mediation through perceived barriers to cessation

Albanese

Boffa

Chavarria

et al. 2016

Journal of Affective Disorders

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Growing interest in developing more effective smoking cessation treatments has facilitated the need to further investigate cognitive-affective factors that inhibit successful smoking cessation, such as urges to smoke. Research has strongly supported an association between suicidality and smoking, yet no work has investigated whether suicidality may increase urges to smoke. The current study sought to evaluate the impact of suicidality on smoking-related cognitive-affective factors predictive of smoking relapse among a community sample of 209 daily smokers engaged in a smoking cessation program. Structural equation modeling (SEM) was used to test the effects of self-reported pre-cessation suicidality on urges to smoke 1 month post-cessation as well as whether this effect was mediated by greater barriers to cessation. Results indicated that internal barriers to cessation significantly mediated the effect of pre-cessation suicidality on greater urges to smoke 1 month following smoking cessation attempt. These findings suggest that elevated suicidality may affect perceived internal barriers to cessation and subsequently urges to smoke 1 month following a quit attempt.

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Suicidality prospectively predicts greater urges to smoke following a cessation attempt: Mediation through perceived barriers to cessation

Albanese

Boffa

Chavarria

et al. 2016

Journal of Affective Disorders

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“…The FTND has shown adequate internal consistency ( α = .61), positive relations with key smoking variables (e.g., saliva cotinine), and high test-retest reliability (Heatherton et al, 1991). In the current sample, the FTND total score internal consistency was low (Cronbach’s α = .46), which is not uncommon for this measure (see Korte, Capron, Zvolensky, & Schmidt, 2013). …”

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Emotion dysregulation explains relations between sleep disturbance and smoking quit-related cognition and behavior

Fillo

Alfano

Paulus

et al. 2016

Addictive Behaviors

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Poor sleep quality and tobacco use are common and co-occurring problems, although the mechanisms underlying the relations between sleep disturbance and smoking are poorly understood. Sleep disturbance lowers odds of smoking cessation success and increases odds of relapse. One reason may be that sleep loss leads to emotion dysregulation, which in turn, leads to reductions in self-efficacy and quit-related problems. To address this gap, the current study examined the explanatory role of emotion dysregulation in the association between sleep disturbance and smoking in terms of (1) self-efficacy for remaining abstinent in relapse situations, (2) the presence of a prior quit attempt greater than 24 hours, and (3) the experience of quit-related problems among 128 adults (Mage=40.2; SD=11.0; 52.3% female) seeking treatment for smoking cessation. Results suggested that increased levels of sleep disturbance are related to emotion dysregulation which, in turn, may lead to lower levels of self-efficacy for remaining abstinent, more quit-related problems, and being less likely to have had a quit attempt of 24 hours or greater. Further, these indirect effects were present above and beyond variance accounted for by theoretically-relevant covariates (e.g., gender and educational attainment), suggesting that they may maintain practical significance. These findings suggest that this malleable emotional risk factor (emotion dysregulation) could serve as a target for intervention among those with poor sleep and tobacco use.

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“…Future studies may benefit by sampling from lighter and heavier smoking populations to ensure the generalizability of the results to the general smoking population. It also is noteworthy that the FTND internal consistency was relatively low, an issue often apparent with this measure (Korte, Capron, Zvolensky, & Schmidt, 2013). Yet, Cronbach alpha values are fairly sensitive to the number of items in each scale and it is not uncommon to find lower Cronbach values with shorter scales (e.g., scales with less than 10 items; DeVellis, 2003).…”

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Anxiety sensitivity mediates relations between emotional disorders and smoking.

Zvolensky¹,

Farris²,

Leventhal³

et al. 2014

Psychology of Addictive Behaviors

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Objectives Research has documented consistent and robust relations between emotional disorders (i.e., depressive and anxiety disorders) and smoking. Yet, it is presently unclear whether anxiety sensitivity, the fear of aversive internal anxiety states, may account for the relations between emotional disorders and various smoking processes, including nicotine dependence, perceived barriers to smoking cessation, and severity of problematic symptoms while quitting during past cessation attempts. Method Participants (n = 465) were treatment-seeking daily tobacco smokers recruited as part of a larger tobacco cessation study. Baseline (pre-treatment) data were utilized. Emotional disorders were assessed via clinical diagnostic interview; self-report measures were used to assess anxiety sensitivity and three criterion variables: nicotine dependence, barriers to smoking cessation, and severity of problematic symptoms while quitting in past attempts. Results Emotional disorders were predictive of higher levels of nicotine dependence, greater perceived barriers to cessation, and greater severity of problematic symptoms while quitting in past attempts; each of these relations were accounted for by the indirect effect of anxiety sensitivity. Discussion The present findings suggest that anxiety sensitivity may be an important transdiagnostic construct in explicating the nature of the relations between emotional disorders and various smoking processes.

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The Fagerström Test for Nicotine Dependence: Do revisions in the item scoring enhance the psychometric properties?

Cited by 101 publications

References 27 publications

Suicidality prospectively predicts greater urges to smoke following a cessation attempt: Mediation through perceived barriers to cessation

Suicidality prospectively predicts greater urges to smoke following a cessation attempt: Mediation through perceived barriers to cessation

Emotion dysregulation explains relations between sleep disturbance and smoking quit-related cognition and behavior

Anxiety sensitivity mediates relations between emotional disorders and smoking.

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