Implementation of Community Health Worker Support for Tobacco Cessation: A Mixed-Methods Study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Adults with serious mental illness (SMI) have high tobacco use disorder (TUD) rates and underutilization of first-line TUD pharmacotherapy. In a randomized trial, a community health worker (CHW) plus primary care provider (PCP) education (PE) intervention improved tobacco abstinence in this population at two years, partly through increasing TUD pharmacotherapy initiation. The current study determined how engagement between participants and CHWs was associated with these outcomes.

Methods

This was a secondary, mixed-methods analysis of 196 participants in the PE+CHW arm of the RCT. Effects of CHW visit number and duration (minutes), CHW co-led smoking cessation group sessions attended, and CHW-attended PCP visit number on TUD pharmacotherapy initiation and tobacco a

SUBMITTER: Foo CYS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10854356 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature