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Preventive Medicine

Volume 35, Issue 2, August 2002, Pages 181-192
Preventive Medicine

Regular Article
A Minimal-Contact Intervention for Cardiac Inpatients: Long-Term Effects on Smoking Cessation

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Abstract

Background. This study examined the 1-year effects of a minimal-contact smoking cessation intervention for cardiac inpatients.

Methods. The multicenter study included cardiac inpatients who had smoked prior to hospitalization. A pretest–posttest quasi-experimental design was used. Patients' experimental condition depended on the hospital they were assigned to. The design was partially randomized: 4 of the 11 hospitals selected the experimental condition themselves (2 experimental, 2 control), while the remaining 7 hospitals were randomly assigned. The experimental group consisted of patients of 5 hospitals (N = 388). Patients of 6 other hospitals served as the control group (N = 401). The intervention included stop-smoking advice by the cardiologist, brief counseling by the nurse, the provision of self-help materials, and aftercare by the cardiologist.

Results. Logistic regression analyses controlling for baseline differences and covariates did not show significant intervention effects on point prevalence and continuous abstinence. The study also showed that the outcomes were not significantly related to the way hospitals were assigned to the experimental condition.

Conclusions. While short-term effects were found, the minimal-contact intervention did not result in significant effects after 12 months, at least if patients lost to follow-up were treated as posttest smokers. Efforts should be made to improve the intervention, especially the aftercare.

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    This study was supported by grants from The Netherlands Heart Foundation and The Dutch Foundation on Smoking and Health.

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    To whom correspondence and reprint requests should be addressed at current address: Department of Social Sciences, Netherlands Open University, Postbox 2960, 6401 DL Heerlen, The Netherlands. Fax: 31(0)-45-5762939. E-mail: [email protected].

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