Background
Cultural principles and practices
Competitiveness
Family centred
Fundraising
Effective elements of smoking cessation competitions
Pharmacological support
Social support
Incentives
Technology to support quitting
Integrating cultural and smoking cessation elements into the WERO intervention
WERO intervention
Methods/Design
Locations
Regional coordinators
Team participants
Team coaches
Inclusion criteria for research
Exclusion criteria for research
Power calculations
Measures
Category | Topic realms |
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Demographic | Sex, ethnicity, age, marital status, education level, community service card (proxy for socioeconomic status) |
Smoking behavior | Smoking status, amount smoked, time to first cigarette, previous cessation attempts and methods used. |
Quitting behavior | Number of quit attempts, any support used to quit, reason for quitting and interest in cessation support |
Others smoking | Presence of smokers in participants’ social networks? Does anyone else in the house smoke? Do people smoke indoors? |
WERO – related | Reasons for stopping during WERO? Cessation methods of interest? Relationship with other team members? Competition methods that help team smoking cessation? Social support by family and friends. |
Technology | Access to mobile phone, IPad/tablet, Internet? Use of social networking sites. |