When free is not for me: Confronting the barriers to use of free quitline telephone counseling for tobacco dependence

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Sheffer, Christine ^a,b   Brackman, Sharon ^b   Lercara, Charnette ^a   Cottoms, Naomi ^c   Olson, Mary ^c   Panissidi, Luana ^a   Pittman, Jami ^a   Stayna, Helen ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

^c Walnut Street Works   (United States)

Author keywords

Barriers to treatment; Ethnic minority; Low income; Quitline; Rural; Tobacco dependence

Indexed keywords

ETHNIC MINORITY; LOCAL PARTICIPATION; LOW INCOME POPULATION; RURAL AREA; TELECOMMUNICATION; TOBACCO;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AMERICAN INDIAN; ARTICLE; BLACK PERSON; CAUCASIAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUNSELING; EMPLOYMENT; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HEALTH DISPARITY; HEALTH SERVICE; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION PROGRAM; SOCIAL STATUS; TELECONSULTATION; TELEPHONE; TOBACCO DEPENDENCE; UNITED STATES; AGED; ARKANSAS; COMMUNICATION BARRIER; HOTLINE; PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH; PROCEDURES; QUESTIONNAIRE; RURAL POPULATION; SMOKING CESSATION; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TOBACCO USE DISORDER;

ARKANSAS; ARKANSAS DELTA; LOUISIANA; MISSISSIPPI DELTA; UNITED STATES;

NICOTIANA TABACUM;

ADULT; AGED; ARKANSAS; COMMUNICATION BARRIERS; COMMUNITY-BASED PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH; COUNSELING; FEMALE; HOTLINES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RURAL POPULATION; SMOKING CESSATION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; TELEPHONE; TOBACCO USE DISORDER; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84951861112     PISSN: 16617827     EISSN: 16604601     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/ijerph13010015     Document Type: Article

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