Cochrane Db Syst Rev
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Cochrane Db Syst Rev · Apr 2005
Review Meta AnalysisIndividual behavioural counselling for smoking cessation.
Individual counselling from a smoking cessation specialist may help smokers to make a successful attempt to stop smoking. ⋯ Smoking cessation counselling can assist smokers to quit.
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Psychosocial and emotional factors are important in childhood asthma. Nevertheless, drug therapy alone continues to be the main treatment. Treatment programmes that include behavioural or psychological interventions have been developed to improve disturbed family relations in the families of children with severe asthma. These approaches have been extended to examine the efficacy of family therapy to treat childhood asthma in a wider group of patients. This review systematically examines these studies. ⋯ There is some indication that family therapy may be a useful adjunct to medication for children with asthma. This conclusion is limited by small study sizes and lack of standardisation in the choice of outcome measures.