Linking smokers to a quitline: randomized controlled effectiveness trial of a support person intervention that targets non-smokers.

ABSTRACT: Evidence-based treatments (e.g. quitlines) are greatly underutilized by smokers limiting their public health impact. A three-session phone intervention for nonsmoking family members and friends (i.e. support persons) was successful for increasing smoker quitline enrollment. To enhance the intervention's potential translatability, in this study, we delivered treatment for the non-smoker within ongoing quitline services and compared the efficacy of the three-call intervention to a streamlined version (one call). A total of 704 adult non-smokers (85% female, 95% White) wanting to help a smoker quit and recruited statewide in Minnesota participated in this randomized controlled trial with parallel groups. Non-smokers received mailed written materials and were randomly assigned to a control con

SUBMITTER: Patten CA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5914310 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature