PSYCH 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Smoking Cessation, Telephone Counseling, Sleep Deprivation
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Research title of abstract #1: promoting smoking cessation among parents: effects on smoking- related cognitions and smoking initiation in children. This research examined whether telephone counseling for parents and subsequent parental smoking cessation affected smoking-related cognitions. Smoking initiation among children of smoking parents was effective. The purpose of this study was clearly stated. The abstract highlighted the methodology that was used, 512 parents were randomly assigned to tailored telephone counseling or a standard self-help brochure. Parental cessation was measured at 12 (cid:373)o(cid:374)ths a(cid:374)d childre(cid:374)"s s(cid:373)oki(cid:374)g-relation cognitions and initiation was measured at 3, 12, and 30 months. The researchers did not omit the title of measure they used to measure parental cessatio(cid:374) a(cid:374)d childre(cid:374)"s s(cid:373)oki(cid:374)g-relation cognition and initiation. The highlights of the results were included, no statistical evidence that children of parents who received smoking cessation affects smoking-relation cognitions and initiation among youth.
