Interactive Voice Response Calls to Promote Smoking Cessation after Hospital Discharge: Pooled Analysis of Two Randomized Clinical Trials.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Hospitalization offers smokers an opportunity to quit smoking. Starting cessation treatment in hospital is effective, but sustaining treatment after discharge is a challenge. Automated telephone calls with interactive voice response (IVR) technology could support treatment continuance after discharge.

Objective

To assess smokers' use of and satisfaction with an IVR-facilitated intervention and to test the relationship between intervention dose and smoking cessation.

Design

Analysis of pooled quantitative and qualitative data from the intervention groups of two similar randomized controlled trials with 6-month follow-up.

Participants

A total of 878 smokers admitted to three hospitals. All received cessation counseling in hospital and planned to stop s

SUBMITTER: Rigotti NA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5570745 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature