Costs to provide a tobacco cessation intervention with parents of pediatric emergency department patients.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Pediatric emergency department (PED) visits are opportune times in which to provide smoking cessation interventions for parents who smoke. This study reports on the costs of providing parental smokers who bring their children to the emergency setting, with a screening, brief intervention, and assisted referral to treatment (SBIRT) intervention, which includes counseling about tobacco cessation and nicotine replacement therapy.

Methods

Cost data were collected during a randomized controlled trial with 750 parental smokers whose child was presented to a PED or pediatric Urgent Care unit with a potential tobacco smoke exposure-related illness. Interventionist training, screening, and SBIRT costs are reported from the organizational perspective (i.e. that of the pro

SUBMITTER: Akers L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7682487 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature