Effect of a workplace-based group training programme combined with financial incentives on smoking cessation: a cluster-randomised controlled trial

The Lancet Public Health

Volumn 3, Issue 11, 2018, Pages e536-e544

  van den Brand, Floor A ^a   Nagelhout, Gera E ^a,b   Winkens, Bjorn ^a   Chavannes, Niels H ^c   van Schayck, Onno C P ^a,d  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b Addiction Research Institute Rotterdam   (Netherlands)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON MONOXIDE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCOME; MALE; MASKING; PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SMOKING CESSATION; TRAINING; WORKPLACE; ADULT; GROUP PROCESS; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATION; NETHERLANDS; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; PROCEDURES; PROGRAM EVALUATION; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ADULT; FEMALE; GROUP PROCESSES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATION; NETHERLANDS; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; PROGRAM EVALUATION; SMOKING CESSATION;

EID: 85056429157     PISSN: None     EISSN: 24682667     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S2468-2667(18)30185-3     Document Type: Article

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