STOP- a training intervention to optimise treatment for smoking cessation in community pharmacies: cluster randomised controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Community pharmacies serve people with high levels of tobacco-related illness, but throughput in NHS Stop Smoking Services in pharmacies remains relatively low. We investigated the effectiveness of a complex intervention to increase service uptake and retention.

Methods

We randomised 60 pharmacies in England and Wales to the STOP intervention or usual practice in a pragmatic, parallel-group, controlled trial over 11 months. Smokers were blind to the allocation. The intervention was theory-based consultation skills training for pharmacy staff with environmental prompts (badges, calendars and behavioural cues). The primary outcome was the number of smokers attending an initial consultation and setting a quit date.

Results

The intervention made no significant

SUBMITTER: Jumbe S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9238035 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature