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. 2018 Dec 12:16:A3.
doi: 10.18332/tid/99881. eCollection 2018.

The Conceptual Model and Methods of Wave 1 (2016) of the EUREST-PLUS ITC 6 European Countries Survey

Geoffrey T Fong  1   2 , Mary E Thompson  1 , Christian Boudreau  1 , Nicolas Bécuwe  3 , Pete Driezen  1 , Thomas K Agar  1 , Anne C K Quah  1 , Witold A Zatoński  4   5 , Krzysztof Przewoźniak  4   6 , Ute Mons  7 , Tibor Demjén  8 , Yannis Tountas  9 , Antigona C Trofor  10   11 , Esteve Fernández  12   13 , Ann McNeill  14   15 , Marc Willemsen  16 , Constantine I Vardavas  17   18 ; EUREST-PLUS consortium
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The Conceptual Model and Methods of Wave 1 (2016) of the EUREST-PLUS ITC 6 European Countries Survey

Geoffrey T Fong et al. Tob Induc Dis. .

Abstract

Population-level interventions represent the only real approach for combatting the tobacco epidemic. There is thus great importance in conducting rigorous evaluation studies of tobacco control policies and regulations such as those arising from the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) and the European Union's 2014 Tobacco Products Directive (TPD). The ITC 6 European Countries Survey, a component of the Horizon 2020 Project entitled European Regulatory Science on Tobacco: Policy Implementation to Reduce Lung Disease (EUREST-PLUS), was created to evaluate and impact of the TPD in six EU Member States: Germany, Greece, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and Spain. In each country, a cohort survey of a representative national sample of 1000 smokers was conducted. This paper describes the conceptual model, methodology, and initial survey statistics of Wave 1 of the ITC 6E Survey, which was conducted June-September 2016. The ITC 6E Survey's conceptual model, methodology, and survey instrument, were based on the broader 29-country ITC Project cohort studies, which have been conducted since 2002. The commonality of methods and measures allow a strong potential for cross-country comparisons between the 6 EU countries of the ITC 6E Project and 3 other EU countries (England, France, The Netherlands) in the ITC Project, as well as the broader set of ITC countries outside the EU.

Keywords: EU Tobacco Products Directive; ITC Project; cohort study; evaluation; tobacco control.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that they have no competing interests, financial or otherwise, related to the current work. N. Bécuwe reports grants from Kantar Public Brussels, during the conduct of the study. K. Przewoźniak reports grants and personal fees from the Polish League Against Cancer, outside the submitted work. C. I. Vardavas reports that he is the Strategic Development Editor of TID and that there are no conflicts of interest with this current work. The rest of the authors have also completed and submitted an ICMJE form for disclosure of potential conflicts of interest.

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The ITC Conceptual Model used in the construction of the ITC Surveys
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