Mapping Tobacco Quitlines in North America: Signaling Pathways to Improve Treatment

This study was designed to better understand how the network of quitlines in the North American Quitline Consortium (NAQC) interact and share new knowledge on quitline practices. Network relationship data were collected from all 63 publicly funded quitlines in North America, including information sh...

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Published in:American journal of public health (1971) 2012-11, Vol.102 (11), p.2123-2128
Main Authors: LEISCHOW, Scott J, PROVAN, Keith, BEAGLES, Jonathan, BONITO, Joseph, RUPPEL, Erin, MOOR, Gregg, SAUL, Jessie
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Biological and medical sciences
Canada
Consortia
Data Collection
Decision making
General aspects
Hotlines - organization & administration
Hotlines - statistics & numerical data
Humans
Information sharing
Interinstitutional Relations
Medical sciences
Miscellaneous
Polls & surveys
Public health
Public health. Hygiene
Public health. Hygiene-occupational medicine
Reputations
Research and Practice
Response rates
Smoking Cessation - methods
Smoking Cessation - statistics & numerical data
Studies
Tobacco
Tobacco, tobacco smoking
Toxicology
United States
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Summary:This study was designed to better understand how the network of quitlines in the North American Quitline Consortium (NAQC) interact and share new knowledge on quitline practices. Network relationship data were collected from all 63 publicly funded quitlines in North America, including information sharing, partner trust, and reputation. There was a strong tendency for US and Canadian quitlines to seek information from other quitlines in the same country, with few seeking information from quitlines from the other country. Quitlines with the highest reputation tended to more centrally located in the network, but the NAQC coordinating organization is highly central to the quitline network-thus demonstrating their role as a broker of quitline information. This first "snapshot" of US and Canadian quitlines demonstrated that smoking cessation quitlines in North America are not isolated, but are part of an interconnected network, with some organizations more central than others. As quitline use expands with the inclusion of national toll-free numbers on cigarette packs, how quitlines share information to improve practice will become increasingly important.
ISSN:0090-0036
1541-0048
DOI:10.2105/AJPH.2011.300529