Spatiotemporal Analysis of Oklahoma Tobacco Helpline Registrations Using Geoimputation and Joinpoint Analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Tobacco quitlines provide free smoking cessation telephone services to smokers interested in quitting tobacco. We aimed to explore spatial and temporal analyses of registrations to the Oklahoma Tobacco Helpline including those of any racial group and American Indians (AI) from January 1, 2006, to June 30, 2017. This will allow tribal and community organizations, such as the Oklahoma Tribal Epidemiology Center, to better implement and evaluate public health prevention efforts at a smaller geographic area using the larger geographic units that are publicly available.

Design

Retrospective, descriptive study.

Setting

Oklahoma.

Participants

Registrants to the Oklahoma Tobacco Helpline.

Main outcome measures

To evaluate the spatial distribution of He

SUBMITTER: Dilekli N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6660360 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep/Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature