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'Look At Your Health': Outcomes associated with a computer-assisted smoking cessation counseling intervention for community college students
- Source :
- Addictive Behaviors. 33:757-771
- Publication Year :
- 2008
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2008.
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Abstract
- Community college students represent 44% of all students enrolled in U.S. higher education facilities. To our knowledge, no previous smoking cessation intervention has targeted community college students. Previous studies suggest that a motivational smoking cessation intervention could be successful for young adult smokers. Combining motivational interviewing sessions with personalized health feedback is likely to increase participants’ motivation to quit and movement through the stages of change. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the impact of a smoking cessation program based on these premises. We designed a computer-assisted, counselor-delivered smoking cessation program that addresses personal health risks and readiness to change smoking behavior among community college students. A group-randomized, controlled trial was used to assess the intervention in a sample of 426 students (58.5% females; mean age, 22.8 ± 4.7 years) from 15 pair-matched campuses. At the 10-month follow-up assessment, the cotinine-validated smoking cessation rates were 16.6% in the experimental condition and 10.1% in the standard care condition (p = 0.07). Our results indicate that our computer-assisted intervention holds considerable promise in reducing smoking among community college students.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Counseling
Male
medicine.medical_specialty
Higher education
medicine.medical_treatment
education
MEDLINE
Motivational interviewing
Medicine (miscellaneous)
Toxicology
Article
law.invention
Randomized controlled trial
Behavior Therapy
law
Intervention (counseling)
medicine
Humans
Young adult
Students
business.industry
Psychiatry and Mental health
Clinical Psychology
Treatment Outcome
Family medicine
Linear Models
Smoking cessation
Female
Smoking Cessation
Community college
business
Follow-Up Studies
Clinical psychology
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 03064603
- Volume :
- 33
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Addictive Behaviors
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....1e36be9722e51a3866913654b0ae879a