Aspiring to physical health: the role of aspirations for physical health in facilitating long-term tobacco abstinence.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To assess aspirations for physical health over 18 months. To examine whether maintained importance of aspirations for physical health mediated and/or moderated the effect of an intensive intervention on long-term tobacco abstinence.

Methods

Participants were randomly assigned to an intervention based on self-determination theory or to community care, and provided data at baseline and at 18 and 30 months post-randomization.

Results

Aspirations for physical health were better maintained over 18 months among participants in the intervention (mean change=.05), relative to community care (mean change=-.13), t=2.66, p<.01. Maintained importance of aspirations for physical health partially mediated the treatment condition effects on seven-day point prevalence tobac

SUBMITTER: Niemiec CP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2660169 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature