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. 2017 Oct 28;4(2):2055102917736429.
doi: 10.1177/2055102917736429. eCollection 2017 Jul-Dec.

Training pharmacists in the stage-of-change model of smoking cessation and motivational interviewing: A randomized controlled trial

Pasquale Caponnetto  1   2 , Jennifer DiPiazza  3 , Maria Rosaria Aiello  4 , Riccardo Polosa  1
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Training pharmacists in the stage-of-change model of smoking cessation and motivational interviewing: A randomized controlled trial

Pasquale Caponnetto et al. Health Psychol Open. .

Abstract

This study evaluated the effect of training pharmacists in the stage-of-change model for smoking cessation and motivational interviewing on smoking cessation outcomes. A training based on the stage-of-change model for smoking cessation and motivational interviewing was introduced to pharmacists. Pharmacists were randomly assigned to the intervention or control group. The control group attended a 3-hour training session, whereas the intervention group also attended a further 6-hour training session. At week 24, 12.2 percent of the smokers quit smoking in the intervention group, whereas 1.6 percent of the smokers quit smoking in the control group. The findings of this study showed that training pharmacists, in the stage-of-change model for smoking cessation and motivational interviewing, improves smoking reduction and cessation rates.

Keywords: adults; clinical health psychology; community health psychology; health promotion; nicotine dependence; public health psychology.

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Conflict of interest statement

Declaration of conflicting interests: The author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship and/or publication of this article.

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CONSORT flow diagram.
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Numbers of smokers enrolled in the study.
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Smoking reduction.
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Smoking cessation rates at week 24.
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