Changing multiple health risk behaviors in CHOICES

Autor: Shannon K. Johnson, Kirk von Sternberg, Mary M. Velasquez
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2018
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Zdroj: Preventive Medicine Reports, Vol 11, Iss , Pp 69-73 (2018)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2211-3355
DOI: 10.1016/j.pmedr.2018.05.006
Popis: Multiple health behavior change (MHBC) intervention trials to date have only considered behaviors that were directly targeted. Research has yet to consider how untargeted behaviors can affect change in behaviors directly targeted by an intervention or how changes in targeted behaviors might lead to changes in other, untargeted behaviors. This study addresses these gaps with a secondary analysis of change in risk drinking (targeted behavior) and smoking (behavior that was not addressed) in the efficacy trial of CHOICES, an intervention for the prevention of alcohol-exposed pregnancies. Measures included the Timeline Followback for daily alcohol consumption and questions about smoking behavior. Participants were women of childbearing age who were at risk of alcohol-exposed pregnancy at baseline. Baseline smokers were less likely to change their drinking behavior than baseline non-smokers at nine months (n = 579) with Odds Ratio (OR) of 0.681 (95% CI = 0.471–0.985); 41.1% of smokers vs 50.6% of non-smokers reduced drinking to below risk levels (
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