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

Prokhorov 2013.

Methods Country: USA
 Setting: home
 RCT
Participants Households with a child younger than 18 years of age and 2 adults, 1 of whom was a smoker
Interventions One culturally appropriate bilingual comic book for children and 2 fotonovelas for adults
Outcomes Reduced household smoking ‐ report and 2 nicotine air sampling monitors
Self‐reported smoking status given (for the smoker)
Increase in knowledge of health effects of SHS
Type of intervention Well‐child (child health check)
Notes  
Risk of bias
Bias Authors' judgement Support for judgement
Random sequence generation (selection bias) Unclear risk Method of randomisation not specified
Allocation concealment (selection bias) Unclear risk Not stated
Incomplete outcome data (attrition bias) 
 All outcomes High risk 76 of 91 households completed 12 months of follow‐up; no ITT analysis stated
Blinding of outcome assessment (detection bias) 
 All outcomes Low risk Environmental nicotine monitors as outcome
Other bias High risk No ITT analysis. Air nicotine levels higher in intervention group but not significantly so