• Am J Prev Med · Dec 2013

    Randomized Controlled Trial Multicenter Study Comparative Study

    The Ask-Advise-Connect approach for smokers in a safety net healthcare system: a group-randomized trial.

    • Jennifer Irvin Vidrine, Sanjay Shete, Yisheng Li, Yumei Cao, Margo Hilliard Alford, Michelle Galindo-Talton, Vance Rabius, Barry Sharp, Penny Harmonson, Susan M Zbikowski, Lyndsay Miles, and David W Wetter.
    • Department of Health Disparities Research (Vidrine, Cao, Wetter). Electronic address: jirvinvidrine@mdanderson.org.
    • Am J Prev Med. 2013 Dec 1; 45 (6): 737741737-41.

    BackgroundBecause smoking has a profound impact on socioeconomic disparities in illness and death, it is crucial that vulnerable populations of smokers be targeted with treatment. The U.S. Public Health Service recommends that all patients be asked about their smoking at every visit and that smokers be given brief advice to quit and referred to treatment.PurposeInitiatives to facilitate these practices include the 5A's (ask, advise, assess, assist, arrange) and Ask-Advise-Refer (AAR). Unfortunately, primary care referrals are low, and most smokers referred fail to enroll. This study evaluated the efficacy of the Ask-Advise-Connect (AAC) approach to linking smokers with treatment in a large, safety net public healthcare system.DesignThe study design was a pair-matched group-randomized trial with two treatment arms.Setting/ParticipantsTen safety net clinics in Houston TX.InterventionClinics were randomized to AAC (n=5; intervention) or AAR (n=5; control). Licensed vocational nurses (LVNs) were trained to assess and record the smoking status of all patients at all visits in the electronic health record. Smokers were given brief advice to quit. In AAC, the names and phone numbers of smokers who agreed to be connected were sent electronically to the Texas quitline daily, and patients were proactively called by the quitline within 48 hours. In AAR, smokers were offered a quitline referral card and encouraged to call on their own. Data were collected between June 2010 and March 2012 and analyzed in 2012.Main Outcome MeasuresThe primary outcome was impact, defined here as the proportion of identified smokers that enrolled in treatment.ResultsThe impact (proportion of identified smokers who enrolled in treatment) of AAC (14.7%) was significantly greater than the impact of AAR (0.5%), t(4)=14.61, p=0.0001, OR=32.10 (95% CI=16.60, 62.06).ConclusionsThe AAC approach to aiding smoking cessation has tremendous potential to reduce tobacco-related health disparities.© 2013 American Journal of Preventive Medicine Published by American Journal of Preventive Medicine All rights reserved.

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