Effectiveness of smoking cessation intervention based on the ABC Approach in patients with TB.

ABSTRACT:

Setting

Urban setting in the Philippines.

Objective

To assess the effectiveness of the ABC Approach developed by The Union as a tobacco-smoking cessation intervention for TB patients at a primary healthcare level in an urban setting in the Philippines.

Design

We set up an intervention group whose patients with TB received the ABC approach and a control group of patients with TB receiving only routine health education in Manila, The Philippines. We collected smoking status and the domestic secondhand-smoking (SHS) status data from patients with TB at months 0, 2, 4, 6, 8, and 12. TB treatment outcome data were also collected.

Results

Patients with TB (n = 2,174) were enrolled upon TB registration. Smoking rates were consistently low in the intervention gr

SUBMITTER: Ohkado A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11216290 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature