Reducing Second-hand Smoke Exposure Among Young Children in Rural China

The Smoking Hygiene Intervention(SHI) will be delivered in six different individualized counseling sessions (two in-person and four telephone counseling): the initial in-person counseling (30-45 minutes), 1 week telephone counseling (\~20 minutes), 2 week telephone counseling (\~20 minutes), 1 month in-person counseling (15-30 minutes), 2 month telephone counseling (\~20 minutes), and 4 month telephone counseling (\~20 minutes). The intervention, SHI, will address SHS exposure of children and parental quitting. It will include behavioral counseling to address health hazards of SHS for children, advice to quit smoking and to adopt a no smoking policy around children and self-help materials (related to second-hand smoking and quitting smoking).

"The placebo intervention will include developmental perspective of the child at different stages of their life, advice on educational and emotional perspective of the child, discussion on the nutritional issues of the child, and self-help materials describing the child development issues.~Subjects randomized to control group will receive a placebo intervention on child development issues delivered at six different individualized counseling sessions (two in-person and four telephone counseling): the initial in-person counseling (30-45 minutes), 1 week telephone counseling (\~20 minutes), 2 week telephone counseling (\~20 minutes), 1 month in-person counseling (15-30 minutes), 2 month telephone counseling (\~20 minutes), and 4 month telephone counseling (\~20 minutes)."