Intervention With Brief Cessation Advice Plus Active Referral for Proactively Recruited Community Smokers: A Pragmatic Cluster Randomized Clinical Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Most smoking cessation (SC) clinics are costly, passive, and underused.

Objective

To compare the SC effect of a combined intervention involving brief, model-guided SC advice plus active referral to SC services (active referral group) with those of brief, model-guided SC advice only (brief advice group) and general SC advice only (control group).

Design, setting, and participants

A single-blind, 3-arm, pragmatic cluster randomized clinical trial was conducted including 1226 adult daily smokers in the general Hong Kong community proactively recruited to participate in the Quit-to-Win Contest held in 2015. The study was conducted from June 20 to September 24, 2015. Participants were randomly allocated to the active referral (n = 402), brief advice (n = 416), a

SUBMITTER: Wang MP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5820734 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature