Research Brief Series: Translating Research Into Practice

BH WELL’s Research Brief series showcases our teams’ most up-to-date research and evidence-based practice in a concise, digestible format. Each research summary serves to bridge the gap between clinical research and public knowledge by enhancing communication, supporting advocacy efforts, and facilitating translation amongst all mental healthcare workers. Providing key insights from evidence-based research will help inform public understanding of health issues, empower individuals to make informed decisions, and to promote overall healthier behaviors/outcomes.

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Enhancing Provider Delivery of Tobacco Treatment Within the Inpatient Psychiatric Setting

Volume 2, Issue 6

August 2025

Closing the Gap: Individuals living with mental illness use tobacco at disproportionately high rates compared with individuals without mental illness. This contributes to significant health disparities. This study explored the factors influencing Mental Health Professional’ intentions and delivery of tobacco treatment for patients living with mental illness in an inpatient psychiatric setting.

Promoting Positive Patient Outcomes: Increasing Mental Health Professionals’ frequency of tobacco treatment delivery can promote positive patient outcomes.

Optimizing Resources: This study utilized a low-cost survey. The findings of this study are intended to increase MHP utilization and implementation of tobacco treatment interventions among psychiatric patients who use tobacco. Lowering tobacco use among patients would decrease patient expenses such as medical costs and the cost of nicotine products.

Read the full research article here.