TY - JOUR
T1 - Utilisation d'un serveur vocal interactif téléphonique d'aide au sevrage tabagique en République islamique D'Iran
AU - Heydari, G.
AU - Ebn Ahmady, A.
AU - Lando, H. A.
AU - Almasinia, B.
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PY - 2014/5
Y1 - 2014/5
N2 - Telephone smoking cessation counselling is a very cost-effective means of reaching dependent smokers in a population. We investigated the frequency of contacts and the types of topics that people accessed after a national telephone helpline was set up in the Islamic Republic of Iran at the beginning of 2011. From a total of 23 979 calls received over a 24-month period, 26.5% of callers hung up without selecting any menus. The most frequently accessed menu was addresses of smoking cessation support services (23.9%), followed by methods of smoking cessation (14.0%), self-help materials for quitting smoking (11.8%) and nicotine dependence assessment (10.4%). The average number of contacts decreased dramatically after the first month of the service but there was a significant increase in the 2 months preceding the feast of Ramadan. Religious messages provide a good opportunity to engage individuals in smoking cessation and may be useful in the planning of media campaigns.
AB - Telephone smoking cessation counselling is a very cost-effective means of reaching dependent smokers in a population. We investigated the frequency of contacts and the types of topics that people accessed after a national telephone helpline was set up in the Islamic Republic of Iran at the beginning of 2011. From a total of 23 979 calls received over a 24-month period, 26.5% of callers hung up without selecting any menus. The most frequently accessed menu was addresses of smoking cessation support services (23.9%), followed by methods of smoking cessation (14.0%), self-help materials for quitting smoking (11.8%) and nicotine dependence assessment (10.4%). The average number of contacts decreased dramatically after the first month of the service but there was a significant increase in the 2 months preceding the feast of Ramadan. Religious messages provide a good opportunity to engage individuals in smoking cessation and may be useful in the planning of media campaigns.
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U2 - 10.26719/2014.20.5.324
DO - 10.26719/2014.20.5.324
M3 - Article
C2 - 24952290
AN - SCOPUS:84921695091
VL - 20
SP - 324
EP - 329
JO - Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal
JF - Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal
SN - 1020-3397
IS - 5
ER -