Tobacco Use and Secondhand Smoke Exposure: Community Education to Reduce Secondhand Smoke Exposure in the Home – Inactive
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Summary of CPSTF Finding
Intervention
CPSTF Finding and Rationale Statement
About The Systematic Review
The systematic review was conducted on behalf of the CPSTF by a team of specialists in systematic review methods, and in research, practice, and policy related to reducing tobacco use and secondhand smoke exposure.
Summary of Results
One study qualified for the review and it evaluated a randomized trial of home nurse visits to help families reduce infant exposure to secondhand smoke.
Summary of Economic Evidence
Applicability
Evidence Gaps
- How effective are educational methods in reducing secondhand smoke exposure in the home?
- What are the relative contributions to reducing secondhand smoke exposure of (1) adherence to policies that ban or restrict smoking in the home, and (2) smoking cessation?
- Do policies in the home that ban or restrict smoking reduce exposure to secondhand smoke? In adults? In children? Are households with children more likely to adopt policies that ban or restrict smoking in the home?
- Are home smoking bans more effective than smoking restrictions?
- What information or message is effective in prompting and maintaining practices in the home?
- What channels are effective for dissemination of information to reduce secondhand smoke exposure in the home?
Study Characteristics
Analytic Framework
Effectiveness Review
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When starting an effectiveness review, the systematic review team develops an analytic framework. The analytic framework illustrates how the intervention approach is thought to affect public health. It guides the search for evidence and may be used to summarize the evidence collected. The analytic framework often includes intermediate outcomes, potential effect modifiers, potential harms, and potential additional benefits.
Summary Evidence Table
Effectiveness Review
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Included Studies
Effectiveness Review
Greenberg RA, Strecher VJ, Bauman KE, et al. Evaluation of a home-based intervention program to reduce infant passive smoking and lower respiratory illness. J Behav Med 1994;17:273 90.
Search Strategies
- Have a publication date of 1980 to May 2000
- Address at least one area in our conceptual framework (ETS, initiation, cessation)
- Be a primary study rather than, for example, a guideline or review
- Take place in an industrialized country or countries
- Be written in English
- Meet the evidence review and the Community Guide chapter development team’s definition of the interventions
- Provide information on one or more outcomes related to the analytic frameworks; and Compare a group of people who had been exposed to the intervention with a group of people who had not been exposed or who had been less exposed. (The comparisons could be concurrent or in the same group over a period of time.)
Our initial database searches were conducted in January 1998. A second database search was conducted in August 1999. Any study added after August 1999 was referred by members of the chapter development team or identified in the reference lists of retrieved articles.
Considerations for Implementation
Crosswalks
Evidence-Based Cancer Control Programs (EBCCP)
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