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Self-Help Quit Smoking Interventions: Effects of Self-Help Materials, Social Support Instructions, and Telephone Counseling.
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Orleans, C. Tracy; And Others – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1991
Smokers (n=2,021) received experimental self-quitting guide emphasizing nonaversive behavioral strategies; same guide with support guide for family and friends; both guides plus telephone counseling; or control group guide of motivational and quit tips. Controls achieved quit rates similar to those of subjects using experimental guide. Telephone…
Descriptors: Counseling Services, Self Help Programs, Smoking, Social Support Groups
Increasing the Accuracy of Self-recording in Speech-Anxious Under-graduates Through the Use of Self-monitoring Training and Reliability Enhancement Procedures
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Hamilton, Scott B.; Bornstein, Philip H. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1977
Undergraduate students, (N=28), participating in a speech anxiety treatment program, served as subjects in a study designed to evaluate procedures for improbing the accuracy of self-recording. Self-monitored speeches were unobtrusively recorded to enable comparisons between the number of disfluencies that were self-recorded and the number actually…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Counseling Services, Research Projects, Self Control
A Randomized Trial of Self-Help Materials, Personalized Feedback, and Telephone Counseling with Nonvolunteer Smokers.
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Curry, Susan J.; And Others – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1995
Evaluates the incremental effects of the use of a self-help booklet, computer-generated personalized feedback, and outreach telephone counseling in a population-based, nonvolunteer sample of smokers. Smoking status was ascertained 3, 12 and 21 months postrandomization. Overall, the telephone counseling significantly increased smoking cessation at…
Descriptors: Adults, Counseling, Counseling Services, Feedback