A randomized controlled trial of a faith-placed, lay health advisor delivered smoking cessation intervention for rural residents.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Rural US residents smoke at higher rates than urban or suburban residents. We report results from a community-based smoking cessation intervention in Appalachian Kentucky.

Study design

Single-blind, group-randomized trial with outcome measurements at baseline, 17 weeks and 43 weeks.

Setting/participants

This faith-placed CBPR project was located in six counties of rural Appalachian Kentucky. A total of 590 individual participants clustered in 28 churches were enrolled in the study.

Intervention

Local lay health advisors delivered the 12-week Cooper/Clayton Method to Stop Smoking program, leveraging sociocultural factors to improve the cultural salience of the program for Appalachian smokers. Participants met with an interventionist for one 90 min g

SUBMITTER: Schoenberg NE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4929151 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature