Use of action planning to increase provision of smoking cessation care by general practitioners: role of plan specificity and enactment

Table 3 Effect of GP plan enactment on the provision of smoking cessation activities (patient-reported) ^a

	Baseline		Post-intervention		Time × group OR (95% CI)
All patients (n = 3,401)	n total	% asked	n total	% asked
Asked about smoking
High GP plan enactment	459	34.6%	314	55.7%	3.04 (2.10–4.41)**
Low GP plan enactment	543	31.1%	316	27.3%	1.01 (0.68–1.49)
Control group	1,066	40.8%	703	37.1%	1
All smokers (n = 665)	n total	% advised	n total	% advised
Advised to quit
High GP plan enactment	63	57.1%	33	66.7%	0.85 (0.27–2.65)
Low GP plan enactment	132	39.4%	65	46.2%	1.52 (0.58–3.99)
Control group	229	43.8%	143	44.1%	1
Smokers motivated to quit (n = 214)	n total	% arranged	n total	% arranged
Arranged for follow-up
High GP plan enactment	35	17.1%	16	18.1%	^b
Low GP plan enactment	25	24.0%	15	26.7%	^b
Control group	71	18.3%	52	9.6%	1
Smokers not motivated to quit (n = 408)	n total	% arranged	n total	% arranged
Arranged for follow-up
High GP plan enactment	35	17.1%	15	13.3%	^b
Low GP plan enactment	86	7.0%	44	9.1%	^b
Control group	142	4.9%	86	10.5%	1

GPs general practitioners, OR odds ratio, CI confidence interval.
^aGeneralised estimating equations adjusted for clustering and patient characteristics.
^bAnalyses not possible due to the sparseness of data.
*p < 0.01, **p < 0.001.

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