Smoking cessation intervention among Vietnamese Americans: a controlled trial
| Autor: | Joyce Adair Bird, Joel M. Moskowitz, Ching Wong, Stephen J. McPhee, Christopher N. H. Jenkins, Ky Q. Lai, Don Fordham |
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| Rok vydání: | 1995 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
Health (social science) business.industry Vietnamese media_common.quotation_subject medicine.medical_treatment Immigration Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Outcome measures Smoking cessation intervention Smoking prevalence language.human_language law.invention Randomized controlled trial law Family medicine Intervention (counseling) medicine language Smoking cessation business media_common |
| Zdroj: | Tobacco Control. 4:S16-S24 |
| ISSN: | 1468-3318 0964-4563 |
| DOI: | 10.1136/tc.4.suppl1.s16 |
| Popis: | Objective To evaluate the effectiveness of a culturally appropriate, media-led information and education smoking cessation campaign. Design Two-year controlled trial, multicomponent programme. Subjects and setting Vietnamese men living in Santa Clara County, California, US. Main outcome measures Pretest (1990) and post-test (1992) surveys of randomly selected Vietnamese men in Santa Clara County and Houston, Texas, serving as a comparison community. Results In both 1990 and 1992, adult males in both communities were more likely to smoke if they were younger (p Conclusion The continuing high smoking prevalence rate among Vietnamese men in Santa Clara County suggests a need for continuing intervention, particularly among recent immigrants. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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