USING RADON RISK TO MOTIVATE SMOKING REDUCTION

利用氡气风险来促进减少吸烟

• 批准号: 2700621
• 负责人: Edward Lichtenstein
• 金额: $ 22.46万
• 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 2000-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/2700621
• 关键词: behavioral /social science research tag; 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 与公用事业公司合作实施的干预措施， 主要目的是改变家庭的吸烟行为 存在吸烟者并且可检测到氡气水平。 参与者将通过公用事业账单中的填充物来识别 提醒他们吸烟和氡气的健康风险并邀请他们 发送免费的氡气测试套件。 有兴趣的家庭将会 随机分为两种情况之一（普通护理和加强护理） 当他们归还氡气测试套件时进行干预。 在平时的护理中 团体，参与家庭将获得最先进的 EPA 有关减少家中氡气的信息。 增强型家庭 干预将收到此 EPA 信息以及特殊书面信息 旨在改变吸烟行为和呈现行为的材料 改变家庭成员接触氡气的策略 个性化电话支持。 该项目的第一年将是 致力于识别和开发有效的展示方式 氡气/吸烟风险信息，完善招聘程序，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并开展 研究的短期评估。 第四年将包括收集 后续数据、分析和出版物的开发。 这 主要使用措施来评估干预的效果 戒烟率和吸烟行为模式的变化 家。 旨在减少氡暴露的行为的二级措施 家庭成员的态度和信念的变化 还将收集氡气与吸烟之间的联系。 长期来看 该研究的目标是开发经过验证的招募和干预措施 其他公用事业可以使用的程序。