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Pediatric-based smoking cessation intervention for low-income women: A randomized trial
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Pediatric-based smoking cessation intervention for low-income women: A randomized trial

Susan J Curry, Evette J Ludman, Elinor Graham, James Stout, Louis Grothaus and Paula Lozano
Archives of pediatrics & adolescent medicine, Vol.157(3), pp.295-302
2003
DOI: 10.1001/archpedi.157.3.295
PMID: 12622686
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Abstract

Background Continued high rates of smoking among socioeconomically disadvantaged women lead to increases in children's health problems associated with exposure to tobacco smoke. The pediatric clinic is a "teachable setting" in which to provide advice and assistance to parents who smoke. Objective To evaluate a smoking cessation intervention for women. Design Two-arm (usual care vs intervention) randomized trial. Setting Pediatric clinics serving an ethnically diverse population of low-income families in the greater Seattle, Wash, area. Intervention During the clinic visit, women received a motivational message from the child's clinician, a guide to quitting smoking, and a 10-minute motivational interview with a nurse or study interventionist. Women received as many as 3 outreach telephone counseling calls from the clinic nurse or interventionist in the 3 months following the visit. Participants Self-identified women smokers (n = 303) whose children received care at participating clinics. Main Outcome Measure Self-reported abstinence from smoking 12 months after enrollment in the study, defined as not smoking, even a puff, during the 7 days prior to assessment. Results Response rates at 3 and 12 months were 80% and 81%. At both follow-ups, abstinence rates were twice as great in the intervention group as in the control group (7.7% vs 3.4% and 13.5% vs 6.9%, respectively). The 12-month difference was statistically significant. Conclusions A pediatric clinic smoking cessation intervention has long-term effects in a socioeconomically disadvantaged sample of women smokers. The results encourage implementation of evidence-based clinical guidelines for smoking cessation in pediatric practice.
Addictive behaviors Adult and adolescent clinical studies Biological and medical sciences Medical sciences Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry Psychopathology. Psychiatry Tobacco smoking

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