USING RADON RISK TO MOTIVATE SMOKING REDUCTION

利用氡气风险来促进减少吸烟

• 批准号: 2112061
• 负责人: Edward Lichtenstein
• 金额: $ 27.32万
• 依托单位: OREGON RESEARCH INSTITUTE
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 1995
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1995-07-15 至 1999-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/2112061
• 关键词: cancer risk; education evaluation /planning; human subject; human therapy evaluation; information dissemination; radon; smoking cessation

DESCRIPTION: The overall objective of this randomized trial is to test an intervention, delivered in cooperation with a public utility company, intended primarily to change smoking behavior in households where a smoker is present and there are detectable levels of radon. Participants will be identified via stuffers in their utility bill alerting them to the health risks of smoking and radon and inviting them to send for a free radon test kit. Interested households will be randomized into one of two conditions (Usual Care and Enhanced Intervention) when they return their radon test kits. In the Usual Care group, participating households will receive state-of-the-art EPA information on reducing radon in the home. Households in the Enhanced Intervention will receive this EPA information plus special written materials aimed at changing smoking behavior and presenting behavior strategies for changing exposure of family members to radon plus personalized telephone support. The first year of the project will be devoted to identifying and developing effective ways of presenting radon/smoking risk information, refining recruitment procedures, and pilot testing interventions and measures. The second and third years will be devoted to implementing the interventions and conducting the short term evaluation of the study. Year four will include collection of follow-up data, analysis, and development of publications. The effects of the intervention will be evaluated primarily using measures of smoking quit rate and changes in patterns of smoking behavior in the home. Secondary measures of behaviors designed to reduce radon exposure of household members and changes in attitudes and beliefs regarding the link between radon and smoking will also be collected. The long term goal of the study is to develop validated recruitment and intervention procedures that can be used by other public utilities.

描述：这项随机试验的总体目标是测试 与一家公用事业公司合作进行干预， 主要是为了改变家庭的吸烟行为， 有吸烟者存在且有可检测到的氡水平。 参与者将通过他们的公用事业账单中的填充物来识别 提醒他们吸烟和氡对健康的危害， 送一个免费的氡检测工具 感兴趣的家庭将 随机分为两种情况之一（家庭护理和增强 当他们返回他们的氡测试包。 常规处理 组，参与家庭将获得最先进的EPA 减少家中氡的信息。 加强的家庭 干预将收到这一环保局的信息，加上特别书面 旨在改变吸烟行为和呈现行为的材料 改变家庭成员氡+暴露的战略 个性化的电话支持。 该项目的第一年将是 致力于确定和发展有效的方式， 氡/吸烟风险信息，完善招募程序，以及 试点测试干预措施和措施。 第二年和第三年 将致力于实施干预措施， 对研究的短期评价。 第四年将包括收集 后续数据、分析和出版物的开发。 的 干预措施的效果将主要通过测量 戒烟率和吸烟行为模式的变化 回家 旨在减少氡暴露的次级行为措施 家庭成员的态度和信仰的变化 并会收集氡气与吸烟的关系。 长期 研究的目的是开发有效的招募和干预措施， 其他公用事业机构可以使用的程序。