Proactive tobacco cessation outreach to smokers of low socioeconomic status: a randomized clinical trial.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Widening socioeconomic disparities in mortality in the United States are largely explained by slower declines in tobacco use among smokers of low socioeconomic status (SES) than among those of higher SES, which points to the need for targeted tobacco cessation interventions. Documentation of smoking status in electronic health records (EHRs) provides the tools for health systems to proactively offer tobacco treatment to socioeconomically disadvantaged smokers.

Objective

To evaluate a proactive tobacco cessation strategy that addresses sociocontextual mediators of tobacco use for low-SES smokers.

Design, setting, and participants

This prospective, randomized clinical trial included low-SES adult smokers who described their race and/or ethnicity as black, His

SUBMITTER: Haas JS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4590783 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature