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Bastian LA, Fish LJ, Peterson BL, Biddle AK, Garst J, Lyna P, Molner S, Bepler G, Kelley M, Keefe FJ, McBride CM. Proactive recruitment of cancer patients' social networks into a smoking cessation trial. Contemporary clinical trials. 2011 Jul 1; 32(4):498-504.
Proactive recruitment of smokers in the social networks of lung cancer patients is challenging. In this study, the majority of family members and friends declined to participate. Enlisting immediate female family members and friends, who live close to the patient as agents to proactively recruit other network members into smoking cessation trials could be used to extend reach of cessation interventions to patients'' social networks. Moreover, further consideration should be given to the appropriate timing of approaching network smokers to consider cessation.