A Randomized Trial of Self-Help Materials, Personalized Feedback, and Telephone Counseling with Nonvolunteer Smokers

Evaluates the incremental effects of the use of a self-help booklet, computer-generated personalized feedback, and outreach telephone counseling in a population-based, nonvolunteer sample of smokers. Smoking status was ascertained 3, 12 and 21 months postrandomization. Overall, the telephone counsel...

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Published inJournal of consulting and clinical psychology Vol. 63; no. 6; p. 1005
Main Author Curry, Susan J
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States 01.12.1995
Subjects
Adult
Adults
Counseling
Counseling Services
Feedback
Female
Humans
Intervention
Male
Middle Aged
Motivation
Outreach Programs
Programmed Instruction as Topic
Rehabilitation Programs
Reinforcement
Self Help Programs
Self Management
Smoking
Smoking Cessation
Smoking Cessation - psychology
Telephone
Telephone Communications Systems
Tobacco
Treatment Outcome
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Summary:Evaluates the incremental effects of the use of a self-help booklet, computer-generated personalized feedback, and outreach telephone counseling in a population-based, nonvolunteer sample of smokers. Smoking status was ascertained 3, 12 and 21 months postrandomization. Overall, the telephone counseling significantly increased smoking cessation at the 3-month follow up, but not at 12 or 21 months. Discusses other findings. (KW)
ISSN:0022-006X
DOI:10.1037/0022-006X.63.6.1005