The role of the nurse in health promotion: an evaluation of a smoking cessation programme in surgical pre-admission clinics.

What Was Tested

The paper reports a study, published as a randomized controlled trial.

This paper presents a pilot study evaluating a smoking cessation programme, implemented by a nurse, in surgical pre-admission clinics at The Chesterfield and North Derbyshire Royal Hospital NHS Trust, Chesterfield, England.

Those in the treatment group received a variety of educational interventions and self-assessment questionnaires relating to smoking cessation, when attending the clinic.

Who Took Part

The study group was 60 subjects.

PubMed indexes the participants as middle-aged adults, both men and women.

Using a quasi-experimental design, a convenience sample of 60 subjects who smoked were randomized, 30 to a control and 30 to a treatment group.

How the Study Was Run

The researchers set it up as a randomized and pilot study.

Random assignment meant chance, not the researchers, decided who got the intervention named in the title and who got the comparison, which limits bias.

It is described as a pilot, a small early test of whether a larger study would be practical.

What Was Measured

This paper presents a pilot study evaluating a smoking cessation programme, implemented by a nurse, in surgical pre-admission clinics at The Chesterfield and North Derbyshire Royal Hospital NHS Trust, Chesterfield, England.

Those in the treatment group received a variety of educational interventions and self-assessment questionnaires relating to smoking cessation, when attending the clinic.

The subject headings attached to it are England, Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice, Internal-External Control, Motivation, Nicotine, Nurse-Patient Relations and Nursing.

What This Means in Plain Language

The paper is a randomized and pilot study in 60 subjects.

The publication is from 1997 (Journal of advanced nursing), a journal based in England.

More context: all human trials.