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. 2019 Feb 13;2019(2):CD003999. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD003999.pub5
Methods Setting: mailed intervention, USA
Recruitment: via state telephone quitlines
Participants 577 smokers (> 24 hour abstinence), 286 intervention and 291 control
27% male, average age 37, average cigs/day: 10 to 20
Interventions Relapse prevention: 'Smoke‐free Kids' mailed parenting program
Control: no treatment
Outcomes 30‐day point prevalence at 3 years
Validation: self‐report only
Notes Funding: "National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Grant No. R01CA148634."
Declaration of interests: "The author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article."
Risk of bias
Bias Authors' judgement Support for judgement
Random sequence generation (selection bias) Unclear risk Unclear how randomisation performed
Allocation concealment (selection bias) Unclear risk Allocation unclear
Blinding of participants and personnel (performance bias) All outcomes Unclear risk Blinding unclear
Blinding of outcome assessment (detection bias) All outcomes Low risk Self‐reported outcome only, but no face‐to‐face contact, hence differential misreport judged unlikely
Incomplete outcome data (attrition bias) All outcomes Low risk Quote: "Attrition status was not associated significantly with study group at either follow‐up point."