Treating Parents for Tobacco Use in the Pediatric Setting: The Clinical Effort Against Secondhand Smoke Exposure Cluster Randomized Clinical Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Despite the availability of free and effective treatment, few pediatric practices identify and treat parental tobacco use.

Objective

To determine if the Clinical Effort Against Secondhand Smoke Exposure (CEASE) intervention can be implemented and sustained in pediatric practices and test whether implementing CEASE led to changes in practice-level prevalence of smoking among parents over 2 years.

Design, setting, and participants

This cluster randomized clinical trial was conducted from April 2015 to October 2017. Ten pediatric practices in 5 states were randomized to either implement the CEASE protocol or maintain usual care (as a control group). All parents who screened positive for tobacco use by exit survey after their child's clinical visit 2 weeks (fro

SUBMITTER: Nabi-Burza E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6692696 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature