To study ownership and use of cell phones in low-income smokers. This may help us better understand the impact of cell phone ownership plans on low income smokers' access to quitlines. Use of quitlines may be impeded by limited access to landline phones and limited airtime minutes on cell phones.
Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Enrollment
775
Eight item survey for smokers being treated in the YNHH Emergency Dept. The survey asks about the type of cell phone(s) subjects have, how much they pay for cell service monthly, housing status, and if they receive any benefit that would qualify them for the Lifeline program.
Yale University
New Haven, Connecticut, United States
Proportion of participants with lifeline wireless phones
The proportion of participants who have lifeline wireless phones (AKA "Medicaid phones").
Time frame: baseline
proportion of participants with limited wireless minutes
The proportion of participants with limited wireless minutes each month, stratified by insurance.
Time frame: baseline
proportion of participants with unlimited wireless minutes
The proportion of participants with unlimited wireless minutes each month, stratified by insurance status.
Time frame: baseline
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