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

Ortega 2015.

Methods Country: Spain
Setting: community (primary paediatric care)
Type: RCT (cluster)
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
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
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)
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