Evaluation of the CHOICES Program of Peer-to-Peer Tobacco Education and Advocacy

CHOICES is a consumer driven program for addressing tobacco in people with mental illness that employs mental health peer counselors. Since 2005, CHOICES has conducted over 298 community visits reaching more than 10,000 smokers with mental illness (about 2500/year). A telephone based outcome study w...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Community mental health journal 2011-06, Vol.47 (3), p.243-251
Hauptverfasser:	Williams, Jill M., Dwyer, Martha, Verna, Marie, Zimmermann, Mia Hanos, Gandhi, Kunal K., Galazyn, Magdalena, Szkodny, Nancy, Molnar, Margaret, Kley, Robert, Steinberg, Marc L.
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Adult Advocacy Biological and medical sciences Cessation Choice Behavior Community and Environmental Psychology Community Participation Consumers Counseling Desintoxication. Drug withdrawal Education Female Follow-Up Studies Health behavior Health Education - methods Health services Humans Interpersonal Relations Male Medical personnel Medical sciences Medicine Medicine & Public Health Mental disorders Mental health Mental health care Mentally ill people Middle Aged Organizational change Original Paper Peer Group Peer tutoring Peers Prevention. Health policy. Planification Professionals Program Development Psychiatrists Psychiatry Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry Psychopathology. Psychiatry Smoking Smoking cessation Smoking Cessation - methods Smoking Cessation - psychology Smoking Prevention Social psychiatry. Ethnopsychiatry Socioeconomic Factors Telephone Tobacco Treatment Outcome Treatments
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Zusammenfassung:	CHOICES is a consumer driven program for addressing tobacco in people with mental illness that employs mental health peer counselors. Since 2005, CHOICES has conducted over 298 community visits reaching more than 10,000 smokers with mental illness (about 2500/year). A telephone based outcome study was conducted in 102 outpatient smokers who received a CHOICES peer-to-peer session. At 1-month follow up participants ( N = 86; 84%) reported smoking an average of 13 cigarettes per day which was significantly reduced from a baseline of 19 ( P
ISSN:	0010-3853 1573-2789
DOI:	10.1007/s10597-010-9310-8