Table 1.
Comparative summary statistics between intervention area and control area of the monthly rate of referral to, initial counselling session, and total counselling sessions with Quitline and different form of NRT (gum, lozenge and patch) dispatch from Quitline in three different periods.
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Period 1 (N=37 months) |
Period 2 (N=07 months) |
Period 3 (N=26 months) |
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| Indicators | Intervention area | Control area | Mean difference | Intervention area | Control area | Mean difference | Intervention area | Control area | Mean difference |
| (95% CI) | (95% CI) | (95% CI) | |||||||
| Referrals/1,000 smokers/month | |||||||||
| mean (sd) | 3•32 ± 0•85 | 3•75 ± 0•70 | -0•43* | 4•86 ± 0•49 | 3•72 ± 0•56 | 1•14 * | 10•76 ± 1•62 | 5•60 ± 0•98 | 5•16*** |
| (-0•07 to -0•79) | (0•52 to 1•75) | (4•41 to 5•91) | |||||||
| median (Q1, Q3) | 3•20 (2•86, 3•92) | 3•93 (3•19, 4•19) | 5•04 (4•56, 5•16) | 3•84 (3•69, 3•97) | 10•76 (9•91, 11•34) | 5•49 (5•01, 6•23) | |||
| min | 1•77 | 2•07 | 4•04 | 2•55 | 7•44 | 3.98 | |||
| max | 5•24 | 5•12 | 5•48 | 4•33 | 14•00 | 8•18 | |||
| Participation (Initial counselling sessions)/1,000 smokers/month | |||||||||
| mean (sd) | 1•59 ± 0•47 | 1•66 ± 0•33 | -0•08 | 2•27 ± 0•27 | 1•57 ± 0•24 | 0•70* | 4•36 ± 0•87 | 1•99 ± 0•30 | 2•37*** |
| (-0•25 to 0•12) | (0•40 to 1•00) | (2•00 to 2•74) | |||||||
| median (Q1, Q3) | 1•50 (1•32, 1•82) | 1•72 (1•46, 1•90) | 2•32 (2•10, 2•44) | 1•54 (1•50, 1•73) | 4•41 (3•75, 4•93) | 1•95 (1•78, 2•16) | |||
| min | 0•79 | 0•80 | 1•84 | 1•15 | 2•56 | 1•22 | |||
| max | 3•11 | 2•21 | 2•64 | 1•84 | 6•34 | 2•58 | |||
| Interaction (Total counselling sessions)/1,000 smokers/month | |||||||||
| mean (sd) | 4•99 ± 0•94 | 5•12 ± 0•65 | -0•13 | 7•80 ± 0•99 | 5•95 ± 0•87 | 1•85* | 19•62 ± 2•72 | 9•30 ± 1•10 | 10•32*** |
| (-0•50 to 0•25) | (0•75 to 2•94) | (9•14 to 11•50) | |||||||
| median (Q1, Q3) | 4•79 (4•47, 5•25) | 5•13 (4•84, 5•56) | 8•16 (7•22, 8•46) | 6•19 (5•24, 6•58) | 19•37 (18•38, 21•27) | 9•17 (8•53, 10•01) | |||
| min | 3•51 | 3•39 | 6•12 | 4•82 | 13•92 | 7•24 | |||
| max | 7•77 | 6•21 | 8.96 | 7•01 | 25•87 | 11•16 | |||
| NRT gums dispatch/1,000 smokers/month | |||||||||
| mean (sd) | 147•29 ± 39•68 | 72•35 ± 19•70 | 74•9** | 563•28 ± 148•42 | 179•44 ± 33•78 | 383•84*** | |||
| (36•92 to 112•95) | (322•64 to 445•02) | ||||||||
| median (Q1, Q3) | 139•68 (135•36, 172•80) | 64•35 (61•11, 90•67) | 605•08 (429•58, 671•04) | 180•84 (156•77, 199•16) | |||||
| min | 79•68 | 43•76 | 315•08 | 99.97 | |||||
| max | 195•36 | 94•77 | 807•48 | 234•90 | |||||
| NRT lozenges dispatch/1,000 smokers/month | |||||||||
| mean (sd) | 97•37 ± 43•99 | 51•60 ± 20•32 | 53.4* | 568.07 ± 156.81 | 168.92 ± 37.41 | 411.26*** | |||
| (3.92 to 87.62) | (334.37 to 463.92) | ||||||||
| median (Q1, Q3) | 92.80 (64.00, 126.40) | 55.90 (38.34, 68.08) | 574.65 (500.80, 677.39) | 169.99 (145.97, 195.15) | |||||
| min | 44.80 | 22.21 | 233.60 | 88.19 | |||||
| max | 163.20 | 70.23 | 831.30 | 228.36 | |||||
| NRT patches dispatch/1,000 smokers/month | |||||||||
| mean (sd) | 87.88 ± 31.08 | 44.40 ± 19.67 | 43.5* | 261.07 ± 53.20 | 76•10 ± 8•87 | 184•97*** | |||
| (12•57 to 74•40) | (163•24 to 506•70) | ||||||||
| median (Q1, Q3) | 95•76 (74•34, 110•60) | 51•29 (27•28, 59•79) | 266•33 (224•34, 293•16) | 77•24 (70•93, 83•76) | |||||
| min | 30•24 | 18•12 | 159•38 | 52•84 | |||||
| max | 119•28 | 67•22 | 352•43 | 88•05 | |||||
Notes:
Asterisk denotes significant p-value; * for <0•05, ** for <0•01 and *** for <0•001.
Referral:the number of client referrals to the Quitline service received by the Health Contact Centre of Queensland Health (HCC). This could be either by client self-referral or third party referral from another person or organisation.
Participation(Initial counselling session): the number of clients who completed at least the first Quitline call.
Interaction(Total counselling sessions): the number of individual Quitline telephone counselling sessions completed in the study area comprising of initial and subsequent calls.
NRT gum dispatch: the number of nicotine gum (4 mg) pieces dispatched to Intensive Quit Support Program (IQSP) clients.
NRT lozenge dispatch: the number of nicotine lozenges (4 mg) dispatched to IQSP clients.
NRT patch dispatch: the number of nicotine patches (21 mg) dispatched to IQSP clients.
Period 1 = Pre-launch period of any intervention (January 2014 to January 2017).
Period 2 = Time between launching of IQSP by Quitline until the “10,000 Lives” started to work (February 2017 to August 2017).
Period 3 = Post-launch period of “10,000 Lives” (November 2017 to December 2019).