Describe the time-series design and the results in the Cable TV smoking cessation research. How did the researchers gauge its effectiveness?
What will be an ideal response?
The Cable TV research designed to help people stop smoking involved a series of half hour programs followed by call-in sessions. After the six weeks of the television programs, researchers assessed the degree to which smokers refrained from smoking. They also monitored the participants at 6 months, then after one year. Participants responded to mailed questionnaires and also provided saliva samples that were used to check the respondents' truth.
The results showed that more people stopped than is common in mass media campaigns, but there was substantial attrition (probably by people who continued to smoke) and substantial failure to stop smoking.
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A) a doctrine demanding seat reservations for women in state legislatures. B) an ideology supporting segregation of men and women prisoners. C) a doctrine advocating full political, economic, and social equality for women. D) an ideology supporting the glass ceiling at workplaces. E) a doctrine advocating free passage of women across borders.
Which of the following terms refers to financial assistance that must be repaid, made to developing states at subsidized interest rates?
a. Official development assistance b. Concessional loans c. Paternalism d. Debt assistance