title: A health sciences student-run smoking cessation clinic experience within a homeless population.
abstract: The primary objective is to describe a professional and graduate student-run approach to smoking cessation education combined with motivational interviewing and pharmacotherapy in regard to the frequency of follow-up with a smoking cessation quitline program in the homeless population. The secondary objective is to assess participants' self-reported level of confidence, knowledge, and willingness to quit before and after participation in the student-run smoking cessation clinic.
  
  
  
  Homeless shelter in Phoenix, Arizona.
  
  
  
  A previously established professional and graduate student-led clinic focused on providing a wide variety of free health services to homeless populations at a homeless shelter. One service not offered was smoking cessation support; thus, a student-run smoking cessation clinic was established.
  
  
  
  Patients were provided smoking cessation education, motivational interviewing, and pharmacotherapy by health sciences professional and graduate students. Patients were then given a 2-week supply of nicotine replacement therapy and referred to the state's smoking cessation quitline. The impact of multiple concomitant smoking cessation strategies provided by students within a homeless population has not been studied previously.
  
  
  
  A 10-day post-referral status update on the success of contact with patients was provided to study investigators from the smoking cessation quitline. Surveys were also used to assess the patient's self-reported level of perceived benefit with the student-run smoking cessation clinic.
  
  
  
  Of the 139 unique patients, 19 (13.7%) successfully contacted the smoking cessation quitline. Patients reported high baseline confidence, knowledge, and willingness related to quit attempts; they reported a small improvement in reported values after participation in the student-run clinics.
  
  
  
  In the homeless population, smoking cessation education, motivational interviewing, and pharmacotherapy had a low follow-up frequency with a smoking cessation quitline, but slightly increased the patient's confidence, knowledge, and willingness to quit.
authors.forename: Kelsey
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Buckley
authors.forename: Laura
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Tsu
authors.forename: Sabrina
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Hormann
authors.forename: Kevin
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Giang
authors.forename: April
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bills
authors.forename: Nicole
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Early
authors.forename: Rebekah
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Jackowski
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001130:Arizona; D015331:Cohort Studies; D005260:Female; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006703:Ill-Housed Persons; D015277:Hotlines; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D062405:Motivational Interviewing / Q000379:methods; D011446:Prospective Studies; D016540:Smoking Cessation / Q000379:methods*; D000074606:Smoking Prevention; D013336:Students, Health Occupations; D061485:Tobacco Use Cessation Devices; D055815:Young Adult