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. 2018 Jan 31;2018(1):CD001746. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD001746.pub4

Chen 2016.

Methods Country: Taiwan
Setting: community (schools)
Type: RCT
Participants 75 parent and child dyads in 6 elementary schools (grades 3 to 6); school was the unit of assignment
Interventions Intervention: Parent‐child dyads received an interactive programme comprising 3 weekly group sessions and 1 individual telephone counselling session 4 weeks after group sessions.
Control: Written materials related to tobacco information were received by mail 4 times during the same time period instead of the intervention sessions.
Outcomes Child exposure: urine cotinine as well as parent and child reports of children's exposure to parental smoking
Target knowledge change: Aims of intervention were to instil knowledge regarding the mechanism of the harmful effect of ETS, to correct people's perceptions of the smoking patterns that lead to ETS exposure at home, to introduce strategies for reducing ETS, and to assist parent‐child dyads in formulating strategies for maintaining a smoke‐free home.
Type of intervention Community‐based
Notes Conflict of interest: none declared
Source of funding: National Science Council of Taiwan (NSC97‐2314‐B‐038‐043‐MY3)
Risk of bias
Bias Authors' judgement Support for judgement
Random sequence generation (selection bias) Unclear risk Not stated
Allocation concealment (selection bias) Unclear risk Not stated
Incomplete outcome data (attrition bias) 
 All outcomes Low risk 21% dropout rate
Blinding of outcome assessment (detection bias) 
 All outcomes Low risk Single‐blind; objective measure (cotinine)
Other bias High risk Selection bias: differences in participation rates between intervention and control groups. Non‐simultaneous collection of self‐reported data and urine cotinine levels during post‐test 2 may have caused inconsistency in the data.