%0 Journal Article
%T Nicotine craving questionnaire (CCN): psychometric properties on Mexican population
%A Luis Villalobos-Gallegos
%A Rodrigo Mar¨ªn-Navarrete
%A Liliana Templos-Nu£¿ez
%A Alejandro Rosendo-Robles
%J Salud mental
%D 2012
%I Instituto Nacional de Psiquiatr¨ªa
%X 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.
%U http://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=58224380002