- Title
- RCT of a client-centred, caseworker-delivered smoking cessation intervention for a socially disadvantaged population
- Creator
- Bonevski, Billie; Paul, Christine; D'Este, Catherine; Sanson-Fisher, Robert; West, Robert; Girgis, Afaf; Siahpush, Mohammad; Carter, Robert
- Relation
- BMC Public Health Vol. 11, Issue 70, p. 1471-2458
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-11-70
- Publisher
- BioMed Central
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2011
- Description
- Background: Disadvantaged groups are an important target for smoking cessation intervention. Smoking rates are markedly higher among severely socially disadvantaged groups such as indigenous people, the homeless, people with a mental illness or drug and alcohol addiction, and the unemployed than in the general population. This proposal aims to evaluate the efficacy of a client-centred, caseworker delivered cessation support intervention at increasing validated self reported smoking cessation rates in a socially disadvantaged population. Methods/Design: A block randomised controlled trial will be conducted. The setting will be a non-government organisation, Community Care Centre located in New South Wales, Australia which provides emergency relief and counselling services to predominantly government income assistance recipients. Eligible clients identified as smokers during a baseline touch screen computer survey will be recruited and randomised by a trained research assistant located in the waiting area. Allocation to intervention or control groups will be determined by time periods with clients randomised in one-week blocks. Intervention group clients will receive an intensive client-centred smoking cessation intervention offered by the caseworker over two face-to-face and two telephone contacts. There will be two primary outcome measures obtained at one, six, and 12 month follow-up: 1) 24-hour expired air CO validated self-reported smoking cessation and 2) 7-day self-reported smoking cessation. Continuous abstinence will also be measured at six and 12 months follow up. Discussion: This study will generate new knowledge in an area where the current information regarding the most effective smoking cessation approaches with disadvantaged groups is limited.
- Subject
- RCT; smoking cessation; disadvantaged populations; counselling services; client-centred
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1041504
- Identifier
- uon:13911
- Identifier
- ISSN:1471-2458
- Language
- eng
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