title: The acceptability of incorporating a youth smoking prevention intervention in the pediatric emergency department.
abstract: The pediatric emergency department (PED) is under-utilized as a setting in which to provide tobacco prevention interventions for at-risk children. We sought to determine the acceptability and feasibility of incorporating a brief, parental tobacco prevention intervention to 520 parents during the PED visit. Mean age (SD) of parents and children was 38.6 (7.1) and 11.5 (1.1), respectively; 47% of children were female; 45% were African American; 36% of parents had an annual income less than $25,000; 28.8% of parents were current smokers. Over 90% of parents said the intervention provided "useful" and "easy to understand" information and 97% of practitioners said it did not "interfere with clinical care." Given the high prevalence of parental smoking in the PED, there is a high likelihood that their children will initiate smoking in the future. Thus, the use of the PED as a venue to providing tobacco prevention interventions warrants further evaluation.
authors.forename: E Melinda
authors.initials: EM
authors.lastname: Mahabee-Gittens
authors.forename: Chen
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Bin
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Huang
authors.forename: Judith S
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Gordon
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001294:Attitude to Health; D002648:Child; D004636:Emergency Service, Hospital; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009820:Ohio; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D010290:Parents; D017060:Patient Satisfaction; D012307:Risk Factors; D020377:Self Efficacy; D012907:Smoking / Q000453:epidemiology; D000074606:Smoking Prevention; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires