Abstract:
This quasi-experimental research aimed to examine the effect of brief intervention on smoking cessation behavior in pulmonary tuberculosis patients. Sixty participants were purposively recruited from a tuberculosis clinic in a tertiary hospital in Bangkok. The first 30 participants were assigned to a control group and the latter 30 to an experimental group. The groups were matched in terms of age and level of nicotine dependence. The control group received the usual nursing care while the experimental group participated in the brief intervention for 8 weeks. The instrument for collecting data was the smoking cessation behavior questionnaire and the quit smoking questionnaire. Data were analyzed using percentage, mean, standard deviation, Chi-square Test, t-test and Z-test. The results showed that after the intervention, the mean score of smoking cessation behavior in the experimental group was significantly higher than before the intervention (p<.05). Likewise, when comparing the mean scores in both groups, the mean score in the experimental group was significantly higher than that of the control group (p<.05). In addition, the 7-day point prevalence quit rate at 2-month follow-up in the intervention group was significantly greater than in the control group (40%, 10% respectively) (p<.05).