Psychometric Testing of the Smoking Cessation Counseling Scale

Abstract

The SCC can be used by researchers or nurses in practice who are interested in assessing, improving, or testing evidence-based practices for smoking cessation counseling.

Comparisons of Modeling Approaches for Evaluating the Longitudinal Association in a Clustered Healthcare Intervention Study

“…Patient populations are older with poor or fair health, more likely to be uninsured, and are more remote from health care services. This example is drawn from medical surgical registered nurses (RNs) that care for HF patients (N=591 RNs) from twenty-three rural hospitals in the eastern U.S [8][9][10]. The intervention study is a randomized, controlled trial with two cohorts: intervention group and control groups.…”

“…PES survey includes 31 items-responses, measured using Likert scales from 1-4 [11][12][13]; while the SCC survey includes 24 items-responses measured on a scale of 1-4 (Newhouse et al). The nurse staffing attributes include RNs skill mix, RN hours per patient day (RN HPPD), RN turnover, and nursing characteristics such as work full or part time, highest degree, gender, age, ethnicity are also collected during the surveys (see Table 1 for descriptive statistics) [9,10] Statistically this is a structural/panel longitudinal intervention survey example with both spatial (twenty-three rural hospitals) and temporal (repeated measured over time) information included, and it is complex design with more than one response from more than one cohort, from two-level hospital-nurse/patient survey data [14]. At the high level, practice environment scale (PES) and SCC from twentythree rural hospitals (n=23) from the eastern U.S region are included.…”

A Phased Cluster-randomized Trial of Rural Hospitals Testing a Quality Collaborative to Improve Heart Failure Care

“…Rural nurses report higher levels of assessment and referral than advanced smoking cessation counseling activities. 35,36 The smoking cessation core measure however, only indicates that education was accomplished (or not). High compliance was present at baseline (96%), providing little opportunity to observe variances.…”

Multisite Studies Demonstrate Positive Relationship Between Practice Environments and Smoking Cessation Counseling Evidence‐Based Practices

“…The issue is not the lack of evidence to guide smoking cessation counseling, but the use of the evidence in the care of patients. The Smoking Cessation Counseling Scale (SCCS) was developed based on evidence-based guidelines to assess how clinicians use the recommended practices (Newhouse, Dennison Himmelfarb, & Liang, 2011). Additional studies have validated adequate psychometric estimates for the SCCS (Lin, Johantgen, & Newhouse, 2017).…”

“…In summary, guidelines focusing on smoking cessation counseling for people who use tobacco are not fully integrated into acute-care nursing services (Liu et al, 2017;Newhouse, Dennison Himmelfarb, et al, 2011). The omission of smoking cessation counseling is a missed opportunity to improve health, and reduce mortality and morbidity for people who use tobacco.…”