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Interactive Voice Response Calls to Promote Smoking Cessation after Hospital Discharge: Pooled Analysis of Two Randomized Clinical Trials.


ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND:Hospitalization offers smokers an opportunity to quit smoking. Starting cessation treatment in hospital is effective, but sustaining treatment after discharge is a challenge. Automated telephone calls with interactive voice response (IVR) technology could support treatment continuance after discharge. OBJECTIVE:To assess smokers' use of and satisfaction with an IVR-facilitated intervention and to test the relationship between intervention dose and smoking cessation. DESIGN:Analysis of pooled quantitative and qualitative data from the intervention groups of two similar randomized controlled trials with 6-month follow-up. PARTICIPANTS:A total of 878 smokers admitted to three hospitals. All received cessation counseling in hospital and planned to stop smoking after discharge. INTERVENTION:After discharge, participants received free cessation medication and five automated IVR calls over 3 months. Calls delivered messages promoting smoking cessation and medication adherence, offered medication refills, and triaged smokers to additional telephone counseling. MAIN MEASURES:Number of IVR calls answered, patient satisfaction, biochemically validated tobacco abstinence 6 months after discharge. KEY RESULTS:Participants answered a median of three of five IVR calls; 70% rated the calls as helpful, citing the social support, access to counseling and medication, and reminders to quit as positive factors. Older smokers (OR 1.36, 95% CI 1.20-1.54 per decade) and smokers hospitalized for a smoking-related disease (OR 1.65, 95% CI 1.21-2.23) completed more calls. Smokers who completed more calls had higher quit rates at 6-month follow-up (OR 1.49, 95% CI 1.30-1.70, for each additional call) after multivariable adjustment for age, sex, education, discharge diagnosis, nicotine dependence, duration of medication use, and perceived importance of and confidence in quitting. CONCLUSIONS:Automated IVR calls to support smoking cessation after hospital discharge were viewed favorably by patients. Higher IVR utilization was associated with higher odds of tobacco abstinence at 6-month follow-up. IVR technology offers health care systems a potentially scalable means of sustaining tobacco cessation interventions after hospital discharge. CLINICAL TRIAL REGISTRATION:ClinicalTrials.gov Identifiers NCT01177176, NCT01714323.

SUBMITTER: Rigotti NA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5570745 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Interactive Voice Response Calls to Promote Smoking Cessation after Hospital Discharge: Pooled Analysis of Two Randomized Clinical Trials.

Rigotti Nancy A NA   Chang Yuchiao Y   Rosenfeld Lisa C LC   Japuntich Sandra J SJ   Park Elyse R ER   Tindle Hilary A HA   Levy Douglas E DE   Reid Zachary Z ZZ   Streck Joanna J   Gomperts Timothy T   Kelley Jennifer H K JHK   Singer Daniel E DE  

Journal of general internal medicine 20170614 9


<h4>Background</h4>Hospitalization offers smokers an opportunity to quit smoking. Starting cessation treatment in hospital is effective, but sustaining treatment after discharge is a challenge. Automated telephone calls with interactive voice response (IVR) technology could support treatment continuance after discharge.<h4>Objective</h4>To assess smokers' use of and satisfaction with an IVR-facilitated intervention and to test the relationship between intervention dose and smoking cessation.<h4>  ...[more]

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