Testing hypothesized psychosocial mediators: Lessons learned in the MassBUILT study

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• Alternative Title:
  Health Educ Behav
• Personal Author:
  Okechukwu, Cassandra A. ; Krieger, Nancy ; Sorensen, Glorian ; Li, Yi ; Barbeau, Elizabeth M.
• Description:
  Only a few of the interventions that target blue-collar workers have conducted formal analysis to evaluate the specific attributes of their intervention that are associated with success or failure. This study examined the role of dual hazard and decisional balance in the MassBUILT smoking cessation intervention. The authors conducted sets of multivariable linear and logistic regressions that examined if (a) the intervention was associated with changes in the psychosocial variables and (b) increase in psychosocial variables was associated with increase in smoking cessation. As hypothesized by the theoretical basis of the study, higher scores on both of the psychosocial variables were significantly associated with smoking cessation. However, the intervention did not change decisional balance and decreased dual hazard. The variables examined were important but were not mediators of the MassBUILT intervention and this could have contributed to the significant relapse in smoking among study participants.
• Subjects:
  Age Factors Female Humans Labor Unions Male Sex Factors Smoking Cessation Socioeconomic Factors Surveys And Questionnaires
• Source:
  Health Educ Behav. 38(4):404-411.
• Pubmed ID:
  21474634
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC3441822
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  K05 CA108663/CA/NCI NIH HHS/United States ; L60 MD003645/MD/NIMHD NIH HHS/United States ; R01 DP000097/DP/NCCDPHP CDC HHS/United States ; 1R01 DP000097/DP/NCCDPHP CDC HHS/United States
• Volume:
  38
• Issue:
  4
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:133744d49a71750a5424979a70e71d04be82fc1d98a53a105b9f4ec45419d430
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/33429/cdc_33429_DS1.pdf
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