Open AccessEffect of a brief smoking cessation intervention on adult tobacco smokers with pulmonary tuberculosis: A cluster randomized controlled trial from North India
Author(s) -
Sonu Goel,
Kathiresan Jeyashree,
Preeti Singh,
Rana J Singh
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
indian journal of public health/indian journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.381
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 2229-7693
pISSN - 0019-557X
DOI - 10.4103/ijph.ijph_265_17
Subject(s) - medicine , smoking cessation , randomized controlled trial , confidence interval , tuberculosis , randomization , incidence (geometry) , psychological intervention , cluster randomised controlled trial , physical therapy , pediatrics , psychiatry , pathology , physics , optics
An association between smoking and poor tuberculosis (TB) treatment outcomes has been globally established. Various smoking cessation interventions (SCIs) have been proven worldwide to curb smoking behavior. There is a need for evidence to assess if SCI increases the chance of successful treatment outcome among TB patients.