Referral Strategies to a Tobacco Quitline and Racial and/or Ethnic Differences in Participation

Pediatrics
Elizabeth T RussoSnehal N Shah

Abstract

Tobacco use inflicts a disproportionate burden of disease on people of color. We evaluated the reach among African American and Hispanic smokers in Boston of 2 referral strategies to the Massachusetts quitline: (1) a provider-referred strategy based in pediatric and dental clinics and (2) a targeted media campaign to promote self-referral to the quitline. Selected demographic characteristics of Boston quitline participants during the study period (2010-2012) were compared between strategies. Self-referred smoker characteristics were also compared in the years before and after the media campaign. Finally, the characteristics of quitline participants were compared with smokers in the 2010 Boston Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance Survey. During the study period, 4066 smokers received cessation services from the quitline; 3722 (91.5%) were self-referred, and 344 (8.5%) were referred by pediatric and dental providers. The proportion of black (31.6%) and Hispanic (20.3%) participants referred by providers was higher than among self-referred participants (18.3% and 7.8%, respectively; P <.001). Overall, provider-referred participants were less likely to be white (17.9%) than to be people of color. Self-referred smokers were more lik...Continue Reading

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