The Effects of a Multilingual Telephone Quitline for Asian Smokers: A Randomized Controlled Trial
Thursday, February 9, 2012
Posted by: Natalia Gromov
Zhu SH, Cummins SE, Wong S, Gamst AC, Tedeschi GJ, Reyes-Nocon J. Journal of
the National Cancer Institute. First published online January 25,
2012.
This study compared the efficacy of a culturally tailored
counseling protocol and self-help materials to self-help materials alone for
2,277 Chinese-, Korean-, and Vietnamese-speaking smokers who were first-time
callers to the Asian-language lines of the California Smokers’ Helpline. Results
showed that telephone counseling doubled the odds of quitting compared to
self-help materials in the study participants overall (counseling vs self-help,
16.4% vs 8.0%, difference = 8.4%, 95% confidence interval [CI] = 5.7% to 11.1%,
P < .001), and within each of the three language groups. The authors conclude
that the common counseling protocol could be effectively used with other Asian
language speaking populations, and that such protocols should be incorporated
into other quitlines, and possibly expanded to other languages.
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