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Original Articles

How Do Perceptions About Cessation Outcomes Moderate the Effectiveness of a Gain-Framed Smoking Cessation Telephone Counseling Intervention?

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Pages 1081-1098 | Published online: 05 Jul 2012
 

Abstract

The distinction between prevention and detection behaviors provides a useful guideline for appropriately framing health messages in terms of gains or losses. However, this guideline assumes that everyone perceives the outcomes associated with a behavior in a consistent manner, as prevention or detection. Individuals' perceptions of a behavior vary, and so the effects of framed messages may be optimized by considering individuals' perceptions rather than the prevention or detection function of the behavior. The authors tested this message-framing paradigm in a secondary analysis of data from a trial evaluating gain-framed smoking cessation counseling delivered through a state quitline (Toll et al., Citation2010). Smokers (N = 2,032) who called a state quitline received either gain-framed or standard care messages. Smokers' beliefs about the positive consequences of stopping smoking (outcome expectancies) were evaluated at baseline. Smoking status and self-efficacy were assessed at 3 months. Outcome expectancies moderated the framing effects among men but not among women. Men in the gain-framed counseling condition who had positive outcome expectancies were more likely to quit and had more confidence in their ability to quit or to remain abstinent than men who were uncertain of the positive outcome of smoking cessation. Among men, self-efficacy mediated the moderated framing effects of the intervention on quit status. These findings suggest that it may be useful to consider sex and individual differences in outcome expectancies when delivering gain-framed smoking cessation messages in the context of a state quitline.

Acknowledgments

This work was supported by grants (R21-CA127818, R21-CA127818-02S1, & K12-DA000167 to B.A.T., R01-CA068427 to P.S.) from the National Cancer Institute and National Institute on Drug Abuse, Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada, by a contract from the New York State Department of Health, and by the State of Connecticut, Department of Mental Health and Addictions Services.

Notes

**p < .05 for within group (sex × experimental condition).

*p < .05. **p < .01.

*p < .05. **p < .01.

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