%0 Journal Article
%T RCT of a client-centred, caseworker-delivered smoking cessation intervention for a socially disadvantaged population
%A Billie Bonevski
%A Christine Paul
%A Catherine D'Este
%A Robert Sanson-Fisher
%A Robert West
%A Afaf Girgis
%A Mohammad Siahpush
%A Robert Carter
%J BMC Public Health
%D 2011
%I BioMed Central
%R 10.1186/1471-2458-11-70
%X A block randomised controlled trial will be conducted. The setting will be a non-government organisation, Community Care Centre located in New South Wales, Australia which provides emergency relief and counselling services to predominantly government income assistance recipients. Eligible clients identified as smokers during a baseline touch screen computer survey will be recruited and randomised by a trained research assistant located in the waiting area. Allocation to intervention or control groups will be determined by time periods with clients randomised in one-week blocks. Intervention group clients will receive an intensive client-centred smoking cessation intervention offered by the caseworker over two face-to-face and two telephone contacts. There will be two primary outcome measures obtained at one, six, and 12 month follow-up: 1) 24-hour expired air CO validated self-reported smoking cessation and 2) 7-day self-reported smoking cessation. Continuous abstinence will also be measured at six and 12 months follow up.This study will generate new knowledge in an area where the current information regarding the most effective smoking cessation approaches with disadvantaged groups is limited.ISRCTN: ISRCTN85202510Quitting smoking is the single most important preventive health behaviour significantly reducing risk of morbidity and premature mortality [1]. Disadvantaged groups are an important target for smoking cessation intervention. Social disadvantage may be defined in terms such as low socioeconomic status or poverty, or less easily quantified indicators of deprivation such as not having adequate and affordable housing; or being subject to discrimination [2]. Smoking rates are markedly higher among severely socially disadvantaged groups than in the general population where rates are declining [1]. In Australia, smoking rates have been found to be highest amongst the following groups; Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people (50%), the homeless (70%), people
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