The effects of peer counseling on smoking cessation and reduction

Malchodi, Carolyn S.; Oncken, Cheryl; Dornelas, Ellen A.; Caramanica, Laura; Gregonis, Elizabeth; Curry, Stephen

doi:10.1016/s0029-7844(02)03070-3

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“…In studies of predominantly low-income and minority populations, peer mentors have been shown to help support healthy behaviors including breastfeeding, smoking cessation, increased physical activity and maintenance of weight loss. 178,179,183–185,187,188,190–193,203–210 These studies highlight the potential of peer mentoring as a culturally sensitive means to improving health behaviors and outcomes in minority populations, 149,170,198,202,211,217 but there is no such peer mentoring intervention developed for patients with SLE. There is some evidence that peer mentoring has also led to improvements in positive affect, sleep, social coping and perception of bodily pain in rheumatic conditions.…”

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Effective Self-Management Interventions for Patients With Lupus: Potential Impact of Peer Mentoring

Williams

Egede

Faith

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The American Journal of the Medical Sciences

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Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is associated with significant mortality, morbidity and cost for the individual patient and society. In the United States, African Americans (AAs) have 3–4 times greater prevalence of lupus, risk of developing lupus at an earlier age and lupus-related disease activity, organ damage and mortality compared with whites. Evidence-based self-management interventions that incorporate both social support and health education have reduced pain, improved function and delayed disability among patients with lupus. However, AAs and women are still disproportionately affected by lupus. This article presents the argument that peer mentoring may be an especially effective intervention approach for AA women with SLE. SLE peers with a track record of success in lupus management and have a personal perspective that clinicians often lack. This commonality and credibility can establish trust, increase communication and, in turn, decrease disparities in healthcare outcomes.

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Effective Self-Management Interventions for Patients With Lupus: Potential Impact of Peer Mentoring

Williams

Egede

Faith

et al. 2017

The American Journal of the Medical Sciences

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“…Six of nine studies included Black or African American pregnant smokers as more than fifty percent of the participants (Cinciripini et al, 2010; El-Mohandes et al, 2012; Gielen et al, 1997; Lillington et al, 1995; Ondersma et al, 2012; Windsor et al, 1993), with one of them specifically targeting this group (El-Mohandes et al, 2012). Two studies included Hispanic pregnant smokers as more than fifty percent of the participants (Dornelas et al, 2006; Malchodi et al, 2003), and the remaining study specifically targeted Alaska Native pregnant smokers (Patten et al, 2010). The following subsections will summarize findings on demographic characteristics of minority pregnant smokers and intervention components and relevant outcomes across nine reviewed studies.…”

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“…The average age range of participants was 23.3–27.9 years old and entered treatment during the first and second trimesters (Cinciripini et al, 2010; El-Mohandes et al, 2012; Gielen et al, 1997; Lillington et al, 1995; Malchodi et al, 2003; Ondersma et al, 2012; Patten et al, 2010; Windsor et al, 1993). Most of the participants were not pregnant for the first time (79%; Gielen et al, 1997; Lillington et al, 1995; Patten et al, 2010); had education of twelve years or less (76%; Cinciripini et al, 2010; El-Mohandes et al, 2012; Malchodi et al, 2003; Patten et al, 2010); were unemployed (66%; Cinciripini et al, 2010; El-Mohandes et al, 2012; Malchodi et al, 2003); were Medicaid-eligible (68%; Cinciripini et al, 2010; El-Mohandes et al, 2012); were unmarried (83%; Cinciripini et al, 2010; Malchodi et al, 2003; Patten et al, 2010); and reported depression or other mood disorders (80%; Cinciripini et al, 2010; El-Mohandes et al, 2012). The range of the number of cigarettes smoked per day during pregnancy was 7.5–13.3 (Cinciripini et al, 2010; Gielen et al, 1997; Malchodi et al, 2003; Ondersma et al, 2012), and one study reported that the average number of cigarettes smoked at pre-pregnancy was 16.3, having decreased that number during pregnancy to 9.8 (Cinciripini et al, 2010).…”

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“…Most of the participants were not pregnant for the first time (79%; Gielen et al, 1997; Lillington et al, 1995; Patten et al, 2010); had education of twelve years or less (76%; Cinciripini et al, 2010; El-Mohandes et al, 2012; Malchodi et al, 2003; Patten et al, 2010); were unemployed (66%; Cinciripini et al, 2010; El-Mohandes et al, 2012; Malchodi et al, 2003); were Medicaid-eligible (68%; Cinciripini et al, 2010; El-Mohandes et al, 2012); were unmarried (83%; Cinciripini et al, 2010; Malchodi et al, 2003; Patten et al, 2010); and reported depression or other mood disorders (80%; Cinciripini et al, 2010; El-Mohandes et al, 2012). The range of the number of cigarettes smoked per day during pregnancy was 7.5–13.3 (Cinciripini et al, 2010; Gielen et al, 1997; Malchodi et al, 2003; Ondersma et al, 2012), and one study reported that the average number of cigarettes smoked at pre-pregnancy was 16.3, having decreased that number during pregnancy to 9.8 (Cinciripini et al, 2010). At treatment baseline, participants had salivary cotinine levels ranging from 114 to 211 ng/ml (Gielen et al, 1997; El-Mohandes et al, 2012; Patten et al, 2010; Windsor et al, 1993).…”

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Systematic Review of Interventions for Racial/Ethnic-Minority Pregnant Smokers

Washio

Cassey

2014

J. Smok Cessat

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Introduction Large disparities exist in smoking rates during pregnancy by racial/ethnic status. Aims The current review examined controlled studies that predominantly included racial/ethnic-minority pregnant smokers for providing smoking cessation treatment. Methods Two authors independently conducted the literature searches in the standard databases using a combination of the keywords with minority, pregnancy, smoking, and cessation identifiers. Results The searches identified nine articles that met the inclusion criteria. Only two studies exclusively targeted specific minority groups. Most of them provided some form of brief smoking cessation counseling, with two combining with incentives and one combining with pharmacotherapy. Two studies provided intensive cognitive interventions. Pregnant smokers of American Indian or Alaska Native, Hispanic subgroups, and Asian or Pacific Islander are under-studied. Conclusions Future studies to treat minority pregnant smokers could target under-studied minority groups and may need to directly and intensely target smoking behavior, address cultural and psychosocial issues in an individualized and comprehensive manner, and analyze cost-benefit of an intervention.

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“…31 Smoking and alcohol cessation programmes that exploit peer influences that modify the social network of the target have been shown to be more successful than those that do not. [32][33][34][35][36][37][38] In sum, social network targeting represents a paradigm shift in how we currently implement interventions in global health settings. Many behaviour-change interventions currently seek to target all members of a population; however, face-to-face counselling for behaviour change takes time and resources.…”

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Exploiting social influence to magnify population-level behaviour change in maternal and child health: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial of network targeting algorithms in rural Honduras

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IntroductionDespite global progress on many measures of child health, rates of neonatal mortality remain high in the developing world. Evidence suggests that substantial improvements can be achieved with simple, low-cost interventions within family and community settings, particularly those designed to change knowledge and behaviour at the community level. Using social network analysis to identify structurally influential community members and then targeting them for intervention shows promise for the implementation of sustainable community-wide behaviour change.Methods and analysisWe will use a detailed understanding of social network structure and function to identify novel ways of targeting influential individuals to foster cascades of behavioural change at a population level. Our work will involve experimental and observational analyses. We will map face-to-face social networks of 30 000 people in 176 villages in Western Honduras, and then conduct a randomised controlled trial of a friendship-based network-targeting algorithm with a set of well-established care interventions. We will also test whether the proportion of the population targeted affects the degree to which the intervention spreads throughout the network. We will test scalable methods of network targeting that would not, in the future, require the actual mapping of social networks but would still offer the prospect of rapidly identifying influential targets for public health interventions.Ethics and disseminationThe Yale IRB and the Honduran Ministry of Health approved all data collection procedures (Protocol number 1506016012) and all participants will provide informed consent before enrolment. We will publish our findings in peer-reviewed journals as well as engage non-governmental organisations and other actors through venues for exchanging practical methods for behavioural health interventions, such as global health conferences. We will also develop a ‘toolkit’ for practitioners to use in network-based intervention efforts, including public release of our network mapping software.Trial registration numberNCT02694679; Pre-results.

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The effects of peer counseling on smoking cessation and reduction

Cited by 67 publications

References 21 publications

Effective Self-Management Interventions for Patients With Lupus: Potential Impact of Peer Mentoring

Effective Self-Management Interventions for Patients With Lupus: Potential Impact of Peer Mentoring

Systematic Review of Interventions for Racial/Ethnic-Minority Pregnant Smokers

Exploiting social influence to magnify population-level behaviour change in maternal and child health: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial of network targeting algorithms in rural Honduras

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