Does Medication Sampling Improve Compliance with Brief Advice? Results from a Pragmatic Randomized Clinical Trial

Table 1

Proportion of patients in the intervention and control groups receiving brief advice^a.

	NRT ()		Control ()		Adjusted for site+HSI, gender, race
		%^†		%^†	OR	95% CI	value
Asked smoking status	373	89	432	87	1.08	(0.58, 1.99)	0.8
Advised to quit	341	81	401	81	1.10	(0.61, 2.00)	0.7
Assessed motivation	317	75	351	71	1.40	(0.87, 2.27)	0.2
Assistance	295	70	240	48	2.84	(1.69, 4.77)	<0.0001
All advice	210	50	193	39	1.72	(1.19, 2.49)	0.004

^aBrief advice based on receipt of 4As (arrange not included; see text for the rationale). Each question asked at 1-month follow up to primary care (baseline) visit. See text for coding of assistance, across any of several specific indicators. ^†Calculated from nonmissing values at 1-month visit.