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Brief Intervention
Does Brief intervention work?
We don’t know for certain that smoking brief interventions are effective for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders since there have been only a few studies. In mainstream settings they have been found to increase the quit rates by 1-3% and are cheap to deliver compared to other interventions (Lancaster 2008). What we do know is that training in brief intervention assists Aboriginal Health Workers to feel more confident about asking and giving advice about quitting and that attending brief intervention is often a trigger to attempt to quit if they themselves smoke (Harvey Desley, Tsey Komia et al. 2002).
Smoking Brief intervention training programs
SmokeCheck is a program developed for Aboriginal Health Workers and is currently available in SA, WA, Queensland and NSW
Quit Victoria has adapted their Quit Educator Training for Indigenous communities in Victoria and NT
Quit Victoria Health Worker Training
National Drug Research Institute brief intervention training program is a freely available online training module developed for Smoke Free WA Health System Policy
National Drug Research Institute
Further reading
CEITC fact sheet What do we know about brief intervention
