An Evaluation of the Youth Quitline Service Young Hong Kong Smokers

Chan, Sophia Siu Chee; Wang, Man Ping; Ho, Kin-Fai; Cheung, Yannes T. Y.; Chan, V.; Lam, Tai Hing

doi:10.1016/j.jadohealth.2016.11.022

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“…This study showed that risk behaviours were closely connected with smoking. This highlights a major limitation in YQ counselling services in Hong Kong (Li et al., ) and in many other parts of the world (Zhu, Anderson, Johnson, Tedeschi, & Roeseler, ), which often address smoking as an independent health risk behaviour and neglect its connections with other risk behaviours. In Hong Kong, YQ did not start to introduce questions to assess the risk behaviours of young smokers during telephone counselling until 2011.…”

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Exploratory study on the relationship between smoking and other risk behaviours among young smokers

Lam

Chan

et al. 2018

Journal of Clinical Nursing

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Exploratory study on the relationship between smoking and other risk behaviours among young smokers

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Chan

et al. 2018

Journal of Clinical Nursing

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“…The performance checklist was developed based on the “5A” approach (ask, advise, assess, assist, and arrange) following the recommendations of current guidelines for cessation counseling by the Youth Quitline research team (Fiore et al, 2008 ), and was validated in a previous study (Li et al, 2017 ). The checklist includes 21 items divided into five domains: ask, advice, assess, assist, and arrange.…”

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Adaptation and Psychometric Evaluation of the Chinese Counseling Competencies Scale-Revised

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Luo

et al. 2021

Front. Psychol.

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Objectives: This study conducted a linguistic and psychometric evaluation of the Chinese Counseling Competencies Scale-Revised (CCS-R).Methods: The Chinese CCS-R was created from the original English version using a standard forward-backward translation process. The psychometric properties of the Chinese CCS-R were examined in a cohort of 208 counselors-in-training by two independent raters. Fifty-three counselors-in-training were asked to undergo another counseling performance evaluation for the test-retest. The confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) was conducted for the Chinese CCS-R, followed by internal consistency, test-retest reliability, inter-rater reliability, convergent validity, and concurrent validity.Results: The results of the CFA supported the factorial validity of the Chinese CCS-R, with adequate construct replicability. The scale had a McDonald's omega of 0.876, and intraclass correlation coefficients of 0.63 and 0.90 for test-retest reliability and inter-rater reliability, respectively. Significantly positive correlations were observed between the Chinese CCS-R score and scores of performance checklist (Pearson's γ = 0.781), indicating a large convergent validity, and knowledge on drug abuse (Pearson's γ = 0.833), indicating a moderate concurrent validity.Conclusion: The results support that the Chinese CCS-R is a valid and reliable measure of the counseling competencies.Practice implication: The CCS-R provides trainers with a reliable tool to evaluate counseling students' competencies and to facilitate discussions with trainees about their areas for growth.

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“…The ambassadors then introduced the local smoking cessation services to the participants using a pocket-sized referral card and offered on-site referral to their choice of a smoking cessation service (refer). Smoking cessation treatments included individual psychological counselling (via telephone or face-to-face), group therapy, nicotine replacement therapy, smoking cessation medications and acupuncture (Supporting information, Appendix S3) [4][5][6]. For participants who were willing to be referred, the ambassadors immediately made telephone calls to the service provider of their choice, made appointments with them and relayed the details of the appointment (date, time and location of the clinic) to the participants.…”

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“…Only a third (31.2% in 2015) of the smokers in the United States tried to quit by using counselling and medication [1], and fewer than 5% of smokers attend a stop smoking service in the United Kingdom every year [2]. In Hong Kong, where the daily smoking prevalence was lower (10.0% in 2017), only of 2.4% smokers have ever used a smoking cessation service [3], which are free with proven effectiveness [4][5][6]. Promoting the use of smoking cessation services is a promising means to increase quitting.…”

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Effects of simple active referrals of different intensities on smoking abstinence and smoking cessation services attendance: a cluster‐randomized clinical trial

Weng

Luk

Suen³

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Addiction

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Background and aims Proactive brief cessation advice by a lay counsellor combined with a referral to a smoking cessation service (active referral) is effective in increasing service use and quitting in community smokers. We compared the effect of two modified approaches to referrals on the cessation outcomes in community smokers. Design Three‐arm cluster‐randomized trial. Setting General community in Hong Kong. Participants Daily cigarette smokers (n = 1163; 77.7% male). Interventions Participants were randomized to receive on‐site active referral (OSR, n = 395), where lay counsellors helped participants make appointments with a smoking cessation service of their choice plus tailored reminders; mobile text messaging referral (TMR, n = 385), where participants were encouraged to use a smoking cessation service via text messages; or brief cessation advice only (control, n = 383). Measurements The primary outcome was a self‐reported 7‐day point‐prevalence abstinence at 6 months post‐treatment initiation. Secondary outcomes included 7‐day point‐prevalence abstinence at 3 and 18 months, biochemically validated abstinence, smoking reduction and the use of cessation services at 3, 6 and 18 months. Findings Using intention‐to‐treat analysis, the OSR (17.7%) and TMR (17.1%) groups had significantly higher self‐reported abstinence than the control (12.0%) group at 6 months [odds ratio (OR) for OSR versus control = 1.58, 95% confidence interval (CI) = 1.06–2.36; OR for TMR versus control = 1.52, 95% CI = 1.01–2.28; both P < 0.05]. The corresponding validated abstinence rates at 6 months were 7.6, 7.8 and 3.9% (OR for TMR versus control = 2.02, 95% CI = 1.07–3.81; OR for TMR versus control = 2.07, 95% CI = 1.10–3.92; both P < 0.05). Self‐reported and validated abstinence were similar at 18 months. OSR groups had higher rates of smoking cessation service use than the control group at all follow‐ups (all P < 0.001). The smoking reduction rates were similar in continuing smokers. Conclusions Simple active referrals (in person or via text messaging) to smoking cessation services increased abstinence rates among smokers in Hong Kong compared with general brief cessation advice. On‐site active referral increased the use of smoking cessation services compared with general brief cessation advice.

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An Evaluation of the Youth Quitline Service Young Hong Kong Smokers

Cited by 16 publications

References 28 publications

Exploratory study on the relationship between smoking and other risk behaviours among young smokers

Exploratory study on the relationship between smoking and other risk behaviours among young smokers

Adaptation and Psychometric Evaluation of the Chinese Counseling Competencies Scale-Revised

Effects of simple active referrals of different intensities on smoking abstinence and smoking cessation services attendance: a cluster‐randomized clinical trial

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