Randomised controlled trial of real-time feedback and brief coaching to reduce indoor smoking.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Previous secondhand smoke (SHS) reduction interventions have provided only delayed feedback on reported smoking behaviour, such as coaching, or presenting results from child cotinine assays or air particle counters.

Design

This SHS reduction trial assigned families at random to brief coaching and continuous real-time feedback (intervention) or measurement-only (control) groups.

Participants

We enrolled 298 families with a resident tobacco smoker and a child under age 14.

Intervention

We installed air particle monitors in all homes. For the intervention homes, immediate light and sound feedback was contingent on elevated indoor particle levels, and up to four coaching sessions used prompts and praise contingent on smoking outdoors. Mean

SUBMITTER: Hovell MF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6697236 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature