Please select the eligibility criteria that correspond to the clinical trial below.
Title: En Pareja: A Latino Couples Intervention to Help Expectant Fathers Quit Smoking
Brief Summary: Smoking among Latino males living in the U.S. is a significant public health problem, one that can contribute to disparities in life expectancy and increase mortality. Latinos smoke at the same rate as White males but are less likely than Whites to quit. Interventions do not reach Latino smokers because many speak only Spanish and previous interventions have had notable limitations. First, most have recruited volunteers, so hard-to-reach Latino smokers likely did not participate. Second, cessation effects were short-term only. Third, no program has attempted to boost Latino cessation rates by capitalizing on a "teachable moment", a time when quitting may seem especially relevant. To address these deficits, we propose to conduct a teachable moment intervention trial for Latino smokers. We will attempt to capitalize on the potential teachable moment of Latinas' pregnancy as an impetus for Latinos' cessation. We will include couples, rather than just men, to sustain intervention effects. We will partner with community leaders to develop an intervention based primarily on Social Cognitive Theory, the Teachable Moment Model, and the Cognitive-Behavioral Couple Therapy Model. Some elements will be at the individual level to help Latinos quit smoking and others will be couple-based to improve communication and reduce stress in the postpartum relationship. The program will be culturally sensitive to Latino values, such as familismo, valuing of and duty to the family and personalismo, valuing warm personal relationships. We will recruit Latino couples (n=366) into a Guia (control) arm in which men receive a culturally appropriate smoking cessation guide, and a couple-based smoking cessation counseling arm.

Hypothesis 1: Latino expectant fathers who receive couple-based counseling to quit smoking will be more likely to be abstinent from smoking at 28 weeks in pregnancy and 12 months post-randomization than Latino expectant fathers who receive a self-help smoking cessation guide.

Hypothesis 2: Couple-based counseling will improve mediators, such as couple communication about smoking, self-efficacy, outcome expectancies, stress levels, risk perceptions, emotion, and self-image, which in turn, will increase cessation rates among Latino expectant fathers.

Hypothesis 3: Couples in the counseling arm will have a greater increase in cessation during pregnancy and a lower decrease in cessation at 6 and 12 months post-randomization than couples in the Guia arm.


Options:
A: Inclusion Criteria:

* Female: 18 or older (or 16 years or older if legally married), not smoking, married or living with a partner who smokes, and less than 25 weeks pregnant (to allow enough time to intervene during pregnancy).
* Male: 18 or older (or 16 years or greater if legally married, living with the woman, smoked in past 30 days, and plans to live in the area for at least two years.

Exclusion Criteria:

* Female: currently smoking.
B: * Age 3-12 years
* Kaiser member for \>= 1 year
* \>= 1 asthma care visit in prior year
* Persistent asthma likely based on prior year:

Physician diagnosis code of persistent asthma OR \>= 4 beta agonist (BA) dispensing events OR \>= 4 Anti-inflammatory (AI) dispensing events

* Secondhand smoke exposure by parent report.
* Parent agrees to participate in a clinical trial of a smoke exposure reduction interventio
C: Inclusion Criteria:

* Child enrolled in Baltimore City Head Start
* Smoker living in the home with child

Exclusion Criteria:

* No smoker in home with child
* Does not speak English
* Is enrolled in other respiratory research study
D: Inclusion Criteria:

* Physician-diagnosed asthma
* Mild persistent to severe persistent asthma
* Ages 3-10 years
* Attending school in the Rochester City School District preschools or elementary schools
* Signed physician permission to enroll the child
* Parent or caregiver must consent to the intervention

Exclusion Criteria:

* Inability to speak and understand either English or Spanish
* No access to a working phone for follow-up surveys
* The family planning to leave the school district within fewer than 6 months
* The child having other significant medical conditions that could interfere with the assessment of asthma-related outcome measures
* children in foster care or other situations in which consent cannot be obtained from a guardian
* Current participation in other local asthma interventions

Answer: A