Evaluation of an intervention for hospitalized African American smokers.
OBJECTIVE
To evaluate the effectiveness of a smoking cessation intervention based on the transtheoretical model of change with a sample of low-income African American smokers admitted to an indigent-care hospital.


METHODS
The intervention incorporated components shown to be effective in increasing cessation in other populations, tailored to a bedside counseling format with follow-up contact postdischarge.


RESULTS
Intervention patients were significantly more likely to advance in stage than were control patients.


CONCLUSIONS
A hospital-offered bedside intervention offers promise in reaching underserved smokers with effective, though limited, cessation assistance.
Davies
Susan L
SL
Department of Health Behavior, University of Alabama at Birmingham, AL 35294-0022, USA. sdavies@uab.edu
Kohler
Connie L
CL
Fish
Larry
L
Taylor
Bruce E
BE
Foster
Glennis Elmore
GE
Annang
Lucy
L
D001741:Black or African American; D000407:Alabama; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007297:Inpatients; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010353:Patient Education as Topic; D011203:Poverty; D015397:Program Evaluation / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D016540:Smoking Cessation / Q000379:methods*