Ortega 2015.
Methods | Country: Spain Setting: community (primary paediatric care) Type: RCT (cluster) |
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Participants | 1101 smoking parents of babies younger than 18 months | |
Interventions |
Intervention: brief intervention based on the '5 A's' approach, carried out during regular well baby visits at paediatric primary care team offices, lasting less than 10 minutes each time and with at least 3 occurrences: at baseline, at 3‐month follow‐up, and at 6‐month follow‐up Control: usual care |
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Outcomes | Child exposure: hair nicotine level and parents' reported measures to avoid baby's exposure to tobacco smoke pollution at home, in the car, and in other settings Target behaviour change: smoking away from child in home, in car, or in other setting |
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Type of intervention | Mixed (primary paediatric care includes both well‐ and ill‐child healthcare services) | |
Notes | Conflict of interest: none declared Source of funding: Spain’s National Committee on Smoking Prevention (Comité Nacional de Prevención del Tabaquismo) and the Public Health Agency of the Catalan Government (Direcció General de Salut Pública, Generalitat de Catalunya) |
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Risk of bias | ||
Bias | Authors' judgement | Support for judgement |
Random sequence generation (selection bias) | Low risk | Randomised using SPSS version 15.0, with primary care teams as the unit of randomisation |
Allocation concealment (selection bias) | Low risk | Not specified, but allocation was randomised by a central computer |
Incomplete outcome data (attrition bias) All outcomes | Low risk | 83% follow‐up rate |
Blinding of outcome assessment (detection bias) All outcomes | Low risk | Not blinded but biological measure (objective) |
Other bias | High risk | • Groups were statistically significantly different at baseline. • Hawthorne effect/observer bias in control group |