Schroeder Institute for Tobacco Research and Policy Studies, Truth Initiative, 900 G St NW, Fourth Floor, Washington, DC, 20001, USA.
Department of Oncology, Georgetown University Medical Center/Cancer Prevention and Control Program, Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Washington, DC, USA.
Transl Behav Med. 2017 Dec;7(4):816-820. doi: 10.1007/s13142-016-0458-9.
In 1986, Lichtenstein et al. (Behav Ther. 17(5):607-19, 1986) presented the results of five studies focused on enhancing social support for smoking cessation in community-based clinic and worksite interventions. The manuscript was titled Social Support in Smoking Cessation: In Search of Effective Interventions and its main conclusion was that "attempts to both increase social support and to enhance treatment effectiveness have not been successful." Thirty years later, the paper by Cutrona et al. (Transl Behav Med. 6(4):546-57, 2016) draws a similar conclusion from a study focused on providing social support through an online social network for smoking cessation. In reviewing these findings - and based on our knowledge of the extensive literature on social support interventions that has been published over the past 30+ years - we believe there is a need for a fundamental shift in research on social support. Our focus here is largely on smoking cessation, but our comments are applicable to other areas of behavior change.
1986 年，Lichtenstein 等人（Behav Ther. 17(5):607-19, 1986）报告了五项专注于增强社区诊所和工作场所干预措施中戒烟社会支持的研究结果。该手稿的标题为《戒烟中的社会支持：寻找有效的干预措施》，其主要结论是“增加社会支持和提高治疗效果的尝试均未成功”。三十年后，Cutrona 等人（Transl Behav Med. 6(4):546-57, 2016）从一项专注于通过在线社交网络为戒烟提供社会支持的研究中得出了类似的结论。在审查这些发现时——并基于我们对过去 30 多年来发表的关于社会支持干预的大量文献的了解——我们认为，需要对社会支持研究进行根本性的转变。我们在这里的重点主要是戒烟，但我们的评论适用于其他行为改变领域。
