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  • Health Services Research
  • Health Equity

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  • Tobacco use is a major cause of preventable death and disease in the US.
  • Significant disparities exist in smoking cessation outcomes among different socioeconomic and racial groups.
  • Understanding complex causal factors is crucial for designing equitable interventions.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To identify and model the causal pathways influencing tobacco cessation intervention uptake.
  • To integrate findings from multiple studies into a unified causal framework.
  • To inform the design of equitable public health strategies for smoking cessation.

Main Methods:

  • Applied the Evidence Synthesis for Constructing Directed Acyclic Graphs (ESC-DAG) protocol.
  • Synthesized data from 35 quantitative studies on tobacco cessation barriers and facilitators.
  • Utilized the Andersen and Aday Health Services Research Model for framework guidance.

Main Results:

  • Socioeconomic disadvantage, digital inequities, rurality, and cultural barriers significantly affect cessation outcomes.
  • Mediating factors include motivation, treatment engagement, and access barriers.
  • Healthcare system factors like provider engagement and outreach facilitate cessation; digital access and tailored interventions show high potential.

Conclusions:

  • The ESC-DAG methodology offers a structured way to visualize causal mechanisms for intervention points.
  • Findings highlight the need for multi-level strategies: financial support, digital equity, provider outreach, and culturally tailored services.
  • A novel causal framework was developed to understand and address disparities in tobacco cessation intervention uptake.