Chan 2005.
Methods | Country: Hong Kong, China Setting: hospital (paediatric wards/outpatient settings) Type: RCT | |
Participants | 80 parents of sick children presenting to a clinic or admitted to a children’s ward of a major Hong Kong hospital | |
Interventions | Intervention: individualised motivational intervention for 30 minutes with nurse counsellor; appropriate stage‐matched intervention used to "increase motivation and lower resistance to quit"; telephone reminder 1 week after the intervention Control: healthy diet counselling for their sick children as a placebo intervention | |
Outcomes | One‐month follow‐up: • Parent report of daily cigarette consumption in past 30 days | |
Type of intervention | Child with health problems (ill‐child health care) | |
Notes | Retention: 77/80 | |
Risk of bias | ||
Bias | Authors' judgement | Support for judgement |
Random sequence generation (selection bias) | Unclear risk | "Randomized controlled trial"; no further information provided |
Allocation concealment (selection bias) | Unclear risk | Randomised after completion of questionnaire; no further information provided |
Incomplete outcome data (attrition bias) All outcomes | Low risk | Low loss to follow‐up: 77 (of 80) participants followed‐up successfully |
Blinding of outcome assessment (detection bias) All outcomes | Unclear risk | "At 1 month, trained interviewers who were blinded to the group assignment delivered telephone follow‐up calls to both groups to evaluate the primary and secondary outcomes using a standardized questionnaire." Self‐reported outcome only; bias possible |