Abstract

VILLALOBOS-GALLEGOS, Luis; MARIN-NAVARRETE, Rodrigo; TEMPLOS-NUNEZ, Liliana  and  ROSENDO-ROBLES, Alejandro. Nicotine craving questionnaire (CCN): psychometric properties on Mexican population. Salud Ment [online]. 2012, vol.35, n.4, pp.273-277. ISSN 0185-3325.

Smoker's craving is one of the most important problems in tobacco cessation treatment. The aim of this study was to elaborate a self report questionnaire to assess smoking urge. Development process was carried out in two parts: construction of items using a natural modified semantic networks method. It was administered to 42 smokers; after that, the first version of the questionnaire was answered by 222 smokers. Internal consistency was obtained and an analysis of discrimination was conducted on the items; then, a factorial analysis with varimax rotation using principal components method was carried out, resulting in 12 items on three factors that explain 76% of the variance and 0.92 Chronbach's alpha.

Keywords : Tobacco craving; craving measurement; reliability; validity.

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