Dr Lisa Szatkowski's Outputs (68)

The impact of televised tobacco control advertising content on campaign recall: evidence from the International Tobacco Control (ITC) United Kingdom Survey (2014)
Journal Article
Richardson, S., McNeill, A., Langley, T., Sims, M., Gilmore, A. B., Szatkowski, L., Heath, R., Fong, G. T., & Lewis, S. (2014). The impact of televised tobacco control advertising content on campaign recall: evidence from the International Tobacco Control (ITC) United Kingdom Survey. BMC Public Health, 14, Article 432. https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-14-432

BACKGROUND: Although there is some evidence to support an association between exposure to televised tobacco control campaigns and recall among youth, little research has been conducted among adults. In addition, no previous work has directly compared... Read More about The impact of televised tobacco control advertising content on campaign recall: evidence from the International Tobacco Control (ITC) United Kingdom Survey.

Characteristics of smokers who have never tried to quit: evidence from the British Opinions and Lifestyle Survey (2014)
Journal Article
Sharma, A., & Szatkowski, L. (2014). Characteristics of smokers who have never tried to quit: evidence from the British Opinions and Lifestyle Survey. BMC Public Health, 14, Article 346. https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-14-346

Background

An understanding of the characteristics of smokers who have never tried to quit may be useful to help identify and target these individuals and encourage them to attempt to give up smoking. Using national survey data we investigated var... Read More about Characteristics of smokers who have never tried to quit: evidence from the British Opinions and Lifestyle Survey.

Smoking cessation advice recorded during pregnancy in United Kingdom primary care (2014)
Journal Article
Hardy, B., Szatkowski, L., Tata, L. J., Coleman, T., & Dhalwani, N. (2014). Smoking cessation advice recorded during pregnancy in United Kingdom primary care. BMC Family Practice, 15(21), https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2296-15-21

Background: United Kingdom (UK) national guidelines recommend that all pregnant women who smoke should be advised to quit at every available opportunity, and brief cessation advice is an efficient and cost-effective means to increase quit rates. The... Read More about Smoking cessation advice recorded during pregnancy in United Kingdom primary care.

Did hardening occur among smokers in England from 2000 to 2010? (2014)
Journal Article
Docherty, G., McNeill, A., Gartner, C., & Szatkowski, L. (2014). Did hardening occur among smokers in England from 2000 to 2010?. Addiction, 109(1), https://doi.org/10.1111/add.12359

Aims

To assess trends in the prevalence of ‘hardcore’ smoking in England between 2000 and 2010, and to examine associations between hardcore smoking and socio-demographic variables.

Design

Secondary analysis of data from the United Kingdom's... Read More about Did hardening occur among smokers in England from 2000 to 2010?.

Completeness of maternal smoking status recording during pregnancy in United Kingdom primary care data (2013)
Journal Article
Dhalwani, N. N., Tata, L. J., Coleman, T., Fleming, K. M., & Szatkowski, L. (2013). Completeness of maternal smoking status recording during pregnancy in United Kingdom primary care data. PLoS ONE, 8(9), Article e72218. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0072218

Background: Given the health impacts of smoking during pregnancy and the opportunity for primary healthcare teams to encourage pregnant smokers to quit, we assessed the completeness of gestational smoking status recording in primary care data and inv... Read More about Completeness of maternal smoking status recording during pregnancy in United Kingdom primary care data.

Characterizing tobacco control mass media campaigns in England (2013)
Journal Article
Langley, T., Lewis, S., McNeill, A., Gilmore, A., Szatkowski, L., West, R., & Sims, M. (2013). Characterizing tobacco control mass media campaigns in England. Addiction, 108(11), https://doi.org/10.1111/add.12293

Aims
To characterize publically funded tobacco control campaigns in England between 2004 and 2010 and to explore if they were in line with recommendations from the literature in terms of their content and intensity. International evidence suggests t... Read More about Characterizing tobacco control mass media campaigns in England.

Socioeconomic variations in access to smoking cessation interventions in UK primary care: insights using the Mosaic classification in a large dataset of primary care records (2013)
Journal Article
Douglas, L., & Szatkowski, L. (2013). Socioeconomic variations in access to smoking cessation interventions in UK primary care: insights using the Mosaic classification in a large dataset of primary care records. BMC Public Health, 13(June), Article 7. https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-13-546

Background
Smoking prevalence is particularly high amongst more deprived social groups. This cross-sectional study uses the Mosaic classification to explore socioeconomic variations in the delivery and/or uptake of cessation interventions in UK prim... Read More about Socioeconomic variations in access to smoking cessation interventions in UK primary care: insights using the Mosaic classification in a large dataset of primary care records.

Tobacco display and brand communication at the point of sale: implications for adolescent smoking behaviour (2013)
Journal Article
Spanopoulos, D., Britton, J., McNeill, A., Ratschen, E., & Szatkowski, L. (2013). Tobacco display and brand communication at the point of sale: implications for adolescent smoking behaviour. Tobacco Control, 23(1), 64-69. https://doi.org/10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2012-050765

Background: In England, point-of-sale (PoS) displays in larger shops were prohibited in April 2012, with an exemption for smaller retailers until 2015. The aim of this study was to examine the association between tobacco displays and brand communicat... Read More about Tobacco display and brand communication at the point of sale: implications for adolescent smoking behaviour.