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Individualised behavioural counselling for smoking mothers decreased children's exposure to smoke

https://doi.org/10.1136/ebn.4.1.10

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    Hovell MF, Zakarian JM, Matt GE, et al.Effect of counselling mothers on their children's exposure to environmental tobacco smoke: randomised controlled trial.BMJ2000 Aug 5;321:337–42OpenUrlAbstract/FREE Full Text

    QUESTION: Does individualised behavioural counselling for smoking mothers reduce children's exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (ETS)?

    Design

    Randomised (allocation not concealed), blinded (outcome assessors) controlled trial with follow up at 1 year.

    Setting

    San Diego county, California, USA.

    Participants

    108 English and Spanish speaking mothers (mean age 29 y; 47% white, 28% Hispanic, 21% black), who smoked ≥2 cigarettes each day and exposed their child (<4 y of age) to the smoke from ≥1 cigarette each day, were identified from service sites of the supplemental nutrition programme for women, infants, and children. Women who were breast feeding and those who did not have a telephone were excluded. Follow up was ≥87%.

    Intervention

    53 mothers were allocated to individualised behavioural counselling, which comprised 3 in person and 4 telephone counselling sessions over a 3 month period. Sessions were done by trained graduate students and focused on shaping procedures …

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    Footnotes

    • Source of funding: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Smoke-Free Families Program.

    • For correspondence: Professor M F Hovell, Center for Behavioral Epidemiology and Community Health, Graduate School of Public Health, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA 92182, USA. Fax +1 858 505 8614.

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