Incentive programmes for smoking cessation: cluster randomized trial in workplaces in Thailand.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To compare several monetary incentive programmes for promoting smoking abstinence among employees who smoke at workplaces in a middle income country.

Design

Parallel group, open label, assessor blinded, cluster randomized controlled trial.

Setting

Large industrial workplaces in metropolitan Bangkok, Thailand.

Participants

Employees who smoked cigarettes and planned to quit within six months recruited from 101 worksite clusters (84 different companies).

Interventions

Worksites were digitally cluster randomized by an independent investigator to usual care or usual care plus one of eight types of incentive programmes. Usual care consisted of one time group counseling and cessation support through a 28 day text messaging programme. The incentive pr

SUBMITTER: White JS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7555070 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature