Feasibility study of a smoking cessation intervention in Directly Observed Therapy Short-Course tuberculosis treatment clinics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Estudio de factibilidad de una intervención para el abandono del hábito de fumar en consultorios de Río de Janeiro, Brasil, donde se administra el Tratamiento Acortado Directamente Observado de la tuberculosis

• Main Authors: Andrea Borges Sereno, Elizabeth Cristina C. Soares, Jose Roberto Lapa e Silva, Anna María Nápoles, Stella Aguinaga Bialous, Vera Luiza da Costa e Silva, Thomas E. Novotny
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; Spanish; Portuguese
• Published: Pan American Health Organization 2012
• Subjects: Tuberculosis; cese del tabaquismo; cese del uso de tabaco; Brasil; smoking cessation; tobacco use cessation; Brazil; Medicine; R; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Public aspects of medicine; RA1-1270; Arctic; Inglés
• Online Access: https://doaj.org/article/eb6f1ec0d5dd429893b5b3f4775988c3

A pilot feasibility study was conducted to determine whether Directly Observed Therapy Short-Course (DOTS) workers could be trained to deliver smoking cessation counseling and referral interventions, identify potential barriers to a full-scale randomized controlled trial on the effectiveness of inte...