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Trial reportNicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco2011

Dyadic efficacy for smoking cessation: preliminary assessment of a new instrument.

Katherine Regan Sterba, Vance Rabius, Matthew J Carpenter, Pamela Villars, Dawn Wiatrek, Alfred McAlister

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Trial report in Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

18 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. The Quit Together couples-focused pilot randomized trial of tobacco cessation for pregnant smokers.European journal of obstetrics, gynecology, and reproductive biology · 2025
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  2. Partner-Involved Financial Incentives for Smoking Cessation in Dual-Smoker Couples: A Randomized Pilot Trial.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2024
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  3. Behavioral couples therapy for smoking cessation: A pilot randomized clinical trial.Psychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors · 2015
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  12. Ideal Cardiovascular Health Metrics in Couples: A Community-Based Study.Journal of the American Heart Association · 2018
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  17. Reactions to framing of cessation messages: insights from dual-smoker couples.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2013
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Katherine Regan SterbaHollings Cancer Center at the Medical University of South Carolina, Department of Medicine, Division of Biostatistics & Epidemiology, 86 Jonathan Lucas Street, PO Box 250955, Charleston, SC 29425, USA. sterba@musc.edu
Vance Rabius
Matthew J Carpenter
Pamela Villars
Dawn Wiatrek
Alfred McAlister

Funding

BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE EDUCATION--CANCER PREVENTION/CONTROLR25CA057712 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HLTH SCI CTR HOUSTON · PI MULLEN, PATRICIA DOLAN · 1992 to 2017
$8.6M
Stimulus Control and Trajectories of Adolescent SmokingK23DA020482 · NIDA · MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA · PI CARPENTER, MATTHEW J · 2007 to 2011
$869k
NCI NIH HHS 2R-25-CA-57712NIDA NIH HHS K23 DA020482
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

introductionSmoking cessation research has demonstrated a link between social support and quitting, but interventions designed to enhance partner support have often failed. We adapted and tested a measure of dyadic efficacy to assess smokers' confidence in their abilities to work together as a team with their partners to quit smoking and cope with quitting challenges. Our goal was to establish the psychometric properties of the dyadic efficacy instrument, including its associations with cessation outcomes.

methodsWe recruited partnered smokers who called the American Cancer Society's Quitline and administered telephone interviews (N = 634, 59% female, average age = 40 years). Interviews included 8 dyadic efficacy items and a variety of sociodemographic, smoking history, and relationship variables at baseline and quit outcomes at 4 months.

resultsFactor analysis of the dyadic efficacy items yielded a 1-factor scale with strong internal consistency (α = .92). Dyadic efficacy was positively associated (p < .0001) with smoking-specific support (r = .51), relationship satisfaction (r = .44), and dyadic coping (r = .54). Dyadic efficacy was not associated with age, gender, race, relationship length, smoking quantity, or previous quit attempts. Respondents with smoking partners who were willing to quit with them had higher dyadic efficacy than those whose smoking partners were not (p < .0001). Higher baseline dyadic efficacy was predictive of 7-day point prevalence quit rates at follow-up (odds ratio = 1.25, 95% CI = 1.02-1.53).

conclusionsWith further study, dyadic efficacy may enhance our understanding of the role of partner relationships in smoking cessation.

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Social SupportAdultFemaleHumansMaleSelf EfficacySmoking CessationSocioeconomic Factors

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PMID21324838
PMCPMC3045465

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