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. 2017 Mar 31;2017(3):CD001292. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD001292.pub3

Okuyemi 2013.

Methods Study design: Randomized controlled trial
Setting: 8 emergency homeless shelters and transitional housing units in Minneapolis/St Paul, Minnesota, USA
Recruitment: through health fairs, staff informational sessions, fliers at homeless shelters and word of mouth
Participants 430 homeless adult smokers; 75% men; av. age 44; cpd 19; motivated to quit
Interventions Therapists: Counsellors
1. Control: Brief advice 10 ‐ 15 mins
2. Intervention: 6 x 15 ‐ 20‐min MI counselling sessions, baseline and wks 1, 2, 4, 6 and 8
Pharmacotherapy: All participants in both groups received a 2‐wk supply of 21 mg nicotine patches, every 2 wks over the 8‐wk treatment period
All participants received a health educational resource called The Power to Quit: A Quit Smoking Guide, developed by the project investigators
Outcomes Abstinence at 6 m (7‐day PP)
Validation: CO ≤ 10 ppm. Salivary cotinine ≤ 20 ng/ml if CO > 10 ppm for those who self‐reported abstinence
Notes New for 2016 update
Risk of bias
Bias Authors' judgement Support for judgement
Random sequence generation (selection bias) Unclear risk Randomization schedule prepared by study statistician, but no detail given on how
Allocation concealment (selection bias) Unclear risk No details given
Blinding of outcome assessment (detection bias) 
 All outcomes Low risk Biochemical validation of abstinence
Incomplete outcome data (attrition bias) 
 All outcomes Low risk Loss to follow‐up, 22% (48/216) I 29% (63/214) C, all treated as smokers in MA