Evaluation of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on a smoking cessation service in Derbyshire: An interrupted time series analysis.

Autor: Gleeson H; Derbyshire County Council Public Health Department, Matlock, Derbyshire, United Kingdom., Earnshaw J; Derbyshire County Council Public Health Department, Matlock, Derbyshire, United Kingdom., Craig C; Derbyshire County Council Public Health Department, Matlock, Derbyshire, United Kingdom., Hodson C; Derbyshire County Council Public Health Department, Matlock, Derbyshire, United Kingdom., Szatkowski L; Lifespan and Population Health, School of Medicine, Nottingham City Hospital, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: PloS one [PLoS One] 2024 Jun 06; Vol. 19 (6), pp. e0303876. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Jun 06 (Print Publication: 2024).
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0303876
Abstrakt: Background: Data published early in the COVID-19 pandemic suggested that smokers infected with SARS-CoV-2 were more likely to need hospital treatment or die than non-smokers, and thus this was seen as a motivator to encourage smokers to make a quit attempt. Live Life Better Derbyshire (LLBD) is an integrated lifestyle service providing free support for residents Derbyshire, UK, who want to quit smoking. On 19 March 2020, LLBD converted from offering face-to-face cessation support to a smoking cessation service delivered remotely.
Methods: Interrupted time series analysis to investigate the impact of COVID-19, and the shift to remote delivery of smoking cessation support, on the number of smokers who accessed cessation support with LLBD, set a quit date, and self-reported having quit at 4-week follow-up.
Results: 11,393 episodes of smoking cessation support were opened with LLBD between 01 January 2018 and 31 December 2021. The weekly count of all outcomes was increasing prior to the date when LLBD converted to remote-only delivery. There was a 20% immediate drop in the number of episodes opened coinciding with this date (IRR 0.88, 95% CI 0.646-0.992) but no change in the number of quit dates set or 4-week quits or the underlying longer-term trends.
Conclusions: The COVID-19 pandemic, and associated shift to remote delivery of smoking cessation support by LLBD, had no substantial sustained overall impact on measures of smoking cessation service activity and success.
Competing Interests: I have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: Hayley Gleeson is the Smoking Cessation Service Manager, and Jennifer Earnshaw the Smoking Cessation Service Development Officer, for Live Life Better Derbyshire. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. The other authors have no competing interests to declare.
(Copyright: © 2024 Gleeson et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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