The effects of a multilingual telephone quitline for Asian smokers: a randomized controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Although telephone counseling services (quitlines) have become a popular behavioral intervention for smoking cessation in the United States, such services are scarce for Asian immigrants with limited English proficiency. In this study, we tested the effects of telephone counseling for smoking cessation in Chinese-, Korean-, and Vietnamese-speaking smokers.

Methods

A culturally tailored counseling protocol was developed in English and translated into Chinese, Korean, and Vietnamese. We conducted a single randomized trial embedded in the California quitline service. Smokers who called the quitline's Chinese, Korean, and Vietnamese telephone lines between August 2, 2004, and April 4, 2008, were recruited to the trial. Subjects (N = 2277) were stratified by language a

SUBMITTER: Zhu SH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3283535 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature