The effectiveness of personally tailored computer-generated advice letters for smoking cessation.

AIM: To assess the effectiveness of a new computer-generated tailored advice programme designed to be used by smokers and recent quitters having problems staying stopped. DESIGN: Randomized trial comparing a series of questionnaire assessments leading to tailored computer-generated advice letters ma...

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Publicado en:Addiction Vol. 99; no. 3; pp. 369 - 378
Autores principales: Borland R, Balmford J, Hunt D
Formato: clinical trial research tables/charts Journal Article
Publicado: Wiley-Blackwell Mar2004
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        affil: VicHealth for Tobacco Control, The Cancer Council Victoria, 1 Rathdowne Street, Carlton Victoria 3053, Australia; ron.borland@cancervic.org.au
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          Automation
          Mail
          Smoking Cessation
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          Chi Square Test
          Clinical Trials
          Data Analysis Software
          Dose-Response Relationship
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          Logistic Regression
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          Middle Age
          Odds Ratio
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          Recurrence Prevention and Control
          Self Report
          T-Tests
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          Adult: 19-44 years
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      ab: AIM: To assess the effectiveness of a new computer-generated tailored advice programme designed to be used by smokers and recent quitters having problems staying stopped. DESIGN: Randomized trial comparing a series of questionnaire assessments leading to tailored computer-generated advice letters mailed at strategically relevant times, to a no extra treatment control sent standardized printed self-help materials. SETTING: Victoria, Australia. PARTICIPANTS: A total of 1058 smokers or recent quitters recruited from callers to the Quitline. MEASUREMENTS: Smoking status and sustained abstinence at 12-month follow-up, plus extent of participation in the intervention. FINDINGS: Using a conservative analysis (missing data coded as a treatment failure), 6-month sustained abstinence was reported by significantly more participants in the computer-generated tailored advice (20%) than the standard printed materials condition (12%) at 12-month follow-up OR 1.82 (1.31-2.55)). Group differences in point prevalence abstinence (28% intervention, 25% control) were not significant. Among participants in the tailored advice condition, 6-month sustained abstinence was associated with the number of advice letters received. CONCLUSION: The provision of a series of tailored, computer-generated advice letters resulted in greater rates of sustained cessation than for controls. A dose-response relationship was found, with increased compliance with the intervention associated with improved cessation outcomes. The programme appears to have much of its effect by preventing relapse.
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