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Complicating the impact of mental health morbidities on tobacco dependence may be the significant portion of patients whose mental health issues and limited social connections are undiagnosed and unaddressed. We hypothesize that patients with no prior mental health diagnoses who are treated for tobacco dependence have high rates of undiagnosed mental health morbidities. Methods: patients were recruited from a tobacco treatment clinic in 2021. Every patient who came for an inaugural visit without a prior diagnosis of mental health disease was screened for depression, anxiety, social isolation and loneliness. Sociodemographic variables were collected. Results: over a 12-month period, 114 patients were seen at the tobacco treatment clinic. Of these 114 patients, 77 (67.5%) did not have a prior diagnosis of a mental health disease. The mean age was 54.3 \u00b1 11.2 years, 52 (67.5%) were females, and 64 (83.1%) were Black\/African American. The mean age of starting smoking was 19.3 \u00b1 5.2 years, and 43 (55.8%) had never attempted to quit smoking in the past. With regards to mental health screening, 32 (41.6%) patients had a score of 9 or greater on the Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ) 9, 59 (76.6%) had a score of 7 or greater on the Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) 7, 67 (87.0%) were identified with social isolation and 70 (90.1%) for loneliness on screening. Conclusion: there was a high prevalence of undiagnosed mental health morbidities and social disconnection in patients who were actively smoking and were struggling to achieve smoking cessation. While a larger scale study is necessary to reaffirm these results, screening for mental health morbidities and social disconnection may be warranted in order to provide effective tobacco dependence management.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/ijerph191811755","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,9,18]],"date-time":"2022-09-18T23:39:22Z","timestamp":1663544362000},"page":"11755","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":5,"title":["Prevalence of Mental Health and Social Connection among Patients Seeking Tobacco Dependence Management: A Pilot Study"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"19","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-8309-0985","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Panagis","family":"Galiatsatos","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA"},{"name":"The Tobacco Treatment and Cancer Screening Clinic, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA"},{"name":"Medicine for the Greater Good, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"MopeninuJesu","family":"Oluyinka","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"The Tobacco Treatment and Cancer Screening Clinic, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA"},{"name":"Medicine for the Greater Good, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Jihyun","family":"Min","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"The Tobacco Treatment and Cancer Screening Clinic, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Raiza","family":"Schreiber","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"The Tobacco Treatment and Cancer Screening Clinic, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-4935-8786","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Dina G.","family":"Lansey","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Oncology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Ruth","family":"Ikpe","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Medicine for the Greater Good, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-6783-1608","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Manuel C.","family":"Pacheco","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Univeridad Tecnol\u00f3gica de Pereira, Universidad Visi\u00f3n de las Americas, Pereira 660003, Colombia"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Victoria","family":"DeJaco","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"The Tobacco Treatment and Cancer Screening Clinic, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Alejandra","family":"Ellison-Barnes","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"The Tobacco Treatment and Cancer Screening Clinic, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Enid","family":"Neptune","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA"},{"name":"The Tobacco Treatment and Cancer Screening Clinic, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Norma F.","family":"Kanarek","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Oncology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA"},{"name":"Environmental Health and Engineering, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Thomas K. 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