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The impact of a brief intervention on maternal smoking behavior
J A Groner1, K Ahijevych, L K Grossman
1Section of Ambulatory Pediatrics, Ohio State University College of Medicine, Columbus Children's Hospital, Columbus, OH, USA. jgroner@chi.osu.edu
Objective:
To determine if mothers receiving a smoking cessation intervention emphasizing health risks of environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) for their children have a higher quit rate than 1) mothers receiving routine smoking cessation advice or 2) a control group.
Design:
Randomized, controlled trial.
Setting:
Primary care center in a large urban children's hospital.
Intervention:
Four hundred seventy-nine mothers were randomly assigned to a smoking cessation intervention either aimed at their child's health or their own health, or to a control group receiving safety information.
Outcome Measures:
Smoking status, stage of change, cigarettes/day, location smoking occurred, and knowledge of ETS effects.
Results:
Complete data (baseline and both follow-ups) were available for 166 subjects. There was no impact of group assignment on the quit rate, cigarettes/day, or stage of change. The Child Health Group intervention had a sustained effect on location where smoking reportedly occurred (usually outside) and on improved knowledge of ETS effects.
Conclusions:
Further research is needed to devise more effective methods of using the pediatric health care setting to influence adult smoking behaviors.
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