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Effects of a Worksite Tobacco Control Intervention in India: The Mumbai Worksite Tobacco Control Study, a Cluster-Randomised Trial

Journal Title

Tobacco Control

First Page

210

Last Page

216

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

3-1-2017

Department

Epidemiology and Community Health

Abstract

OBJECTIVES: We assessed a worksite intervention designed to promote tobacco control among workers in the manufacturing sector in Greater Mumbai, India. METHODS: We used a cluster-randomised design to test an integrated health promotion/health protection intervention, the Healthy, Safe, and Tobacco-free Worksites programme. Between July 2012 and July 2013, we recruited 20 worksites on a rolling basis and randomly assigned them to intervention or delayed-intervention control conditions. The follow-up survey was conducted between December 2013 and November 2014. RESULTS: The difference in 30-day quit rates between intervention and control conditions was statistically significant for production workers (OR=2.25, p=0.03), although not for the overall sample (OR=1.70; p=0.12). The intervention resulted in a doubling of the 6-month cessation rates among workers in the intervention worksites compared to those in the control, for production workers (OR=2.29; p=0.07) and for the overall sample (OR=1.81; p=0.13), but the difference did not reach statistical significance. CONCLUSIONS: These findings demonstrate the potential impact of a tobacco control intervention that combined tobacco control and health protection programming within Indian manufacturing worksites. TRIAL REGISTRATION NUMBER: NCT01841879.

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