ArticleAddictive behaviors2015
Promoting tobacco cessation utilizing pre-health professional students as research associates in the emergency department.
Article in Addictive behaviors, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.
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5 citing papers in PubMed.
- Effectiveness of Recruitment Strategies of Latino Smokers: Secondary Analysis of a Mobile Health Smoking Cessation Randomized Clinical Trial.Journal of medical Internet research · 2022Trial
- Feasibility and Effectiveness of Recruiting Latinos inInternational journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Trial
- Implementation of an Emergency Medicine Research Associates Program: Sharing 20 Years of Experience.The western journal of emergency medicine · 2018Article
- Access to Care and Depression among Emergency Department Patients.The Journal of emergency medicine · 2017Article
- Student volunteers as a supplementary workforce for an integrated ED HIV testing model with fourth-generation and point-of-care testing.The American journal of emergency medicine · 2017Article
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Abstract
objectiveThe objective of this study was to investigate the extent to which volunteer research associates (RAs) can be utilized to screen emergency department patients and their visitors for tobacco use and effectively refer tobacco users requesting help to state Tobacco Quitlines.
methodsA sample of 19,149 individuals in 10 emergency departments around the country was enrolled into a prospective, interventional study on tobacco cessation by pre-health professional RAs. Participants who screened positive for tobacco use were provided a brief description of Tobacco Quitline programs and then offered a faxed referral to their respective state Quitline.
resultsA total of 10,303 (54%) participants reported tobacco use for more than one month during their lives, with 3861 (20%) currently using every day and an additional 1340 using on some days (7%). Most importantly, 2151 participants requested a faxed Tobacco Quitline referral (36% of individuals who used tobacco in the past month). DISCUSSION: Pre-health professional RAs were shown to be an effective and cost-efficient resource for providing a strongly recommended service in the emergency department. Patient care (and the care of their visitors) was supplemented, emergency department personnel were not provided with additional burden, and RAs were provided with valuable experience for their futures in the health professions.
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