The effectiveness of personalized smoking cessation strategies for callers to a Quitline service.

AIM: To assess the effectiveness of a program of computer-generated tailored advice for callers to a telephone helpline, and to assess whether it enhanced a series of callback telephone counselling sessions in aiding smoking cessation. DESIGN: Randomized controlled trial comparing: (1) untailored se...

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Published in:Addiction Vol. 98; no. 6; pp. 837 - 847
Main Authors: Borland R, Balmford J, Segan C, Livingston P, Owen N
Format: clinical trial research tables/charts Journal Article
Published: Wiley-Blackwell Jun2003
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          Borland R
          Balmford J
          Segan C
          Livingston P
          Owen N
        affil: VicHealth Centre for Tobacco Control, Cancer Council Victoria 1, 1 Rathdowne Street, Carlton, Victoria 3053, Australia; ron.borland@cancervic.org.au
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          Smoking Cessation
          Telephone Information Services
          Counseling
          Surveys
          Victoria
          Nicotine Replacement Therapy
          Chi Square Test
          Logistic Regression
          Clinical Trials
          Interviews
          Data Analysis Software
          Female
          Male
          Adult
          Self Report
          Models, Theoretical
          Treatment Outcomes
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          Adult: 19-44 years
          Female
          Male
      ab: AIM: To assess the effectiveness of a program of computer-generated tailored advice for callers to a telephone helpline, and to assess whether it enhanced a series of callback telephone counselling sessions in aiding smoking cessation. DESIGN: Randomized controlled trial comparing: (1) untailored self-help materials; (2) computer-generated tailored advice only, and (3) computer-generated tailored advice plus callback telephone counselling. Assessment surveys were conducted at baseline, 3, 6 and 12 months. SETTING: Victoria, Australia. PARTICIPANTS: A total of 1578 smokers who called the Quitline service and agreed to participate. MEASUREMENTS: Smoking status at follow-up; duration of cessation, if quit; use of nicotine replacement therapy; and extent of participation in the callback service. FINDINGS: At the 3-month follow-up, significantly more (chi2(2) = 16.9; P < 0.001) participants in the computer-generated tailored advice plus telephone counselling condition were not smoking (21%) than in either the computer-generated advice only (12%) or the control condition (12%). Proportions reporting not smoking at the 12-month follow-up were 26%, 23% and 22%, respectively (NS) for point prevalence, and for 9 months sustained abstinence; 8.2, 6.0, and 5.0 (NS). In the telephone counselling group, those receiving callbacks were more likely than those who did not to have sustained abstinence at 12 months (10.2 compared with 4.0, P < 0.05). Logistic regression on 3-month data showed significant independent effects on cessation of telephone counselling and use of NRT, but not of computer-generated tailored advice. CONCLUSION: Computer-generated tailored advice did not enhance telephone counselling, nor have any independent effect on cessation. This may be due to poor timing of the computer-generated tailored advice and poor integration of the two modes of advice.
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