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Rachna Begh
Researcher at University of Oxford
Publications - 46
Citations - 3025
Rachna Begh is an academic researcher from University of Oxford. The author has contributed to research in topics: Smoking cessation & Medicine. The author has an hindex of 15, co-authored 37 publications receiving 2510 citations. Previous affiliations of Rachna Begh include University of Edinburgh & University of Birmingham.
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Electronic cigarettes for smoking cessation
TL;DR: The safety and effect of using ECs to help people who smoke achieve long-term smoking abstinence and the main outcome measure was abstinence from smoking after at least six months follow-up is evaluated.
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Influence of smoking cessation after diagnosis of early stage lung cancer on prognosis: systematic review of observational studies with meta-analysis
TL;DR: Preliminary evidence that smoking cessation after diagnosis of early stage lung cancer improves prognostic outcomes is provided, and it is indicated that offering smoking cessation treatment to patients presenting with earlyStage lung cancer may be beneficial.
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Motivational interviewing for smoking cessation
TL;DR: Motivational interviewing may assist people to quit smoking, but the results should be interpreted with caution, due to variations in study quality, treatment fidelity, between-study heterogeneity and the possibility of publication or selective reporting bias.
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Brief opportunistic smoking cessation interventions: a systematic review and meta‐analysis to compare advice to quit and offer of assistance
TL;DR: Physicians may be more effective in promoting attempts to stop smoking by offering assistance to all smokers than by advising smokers to quit and offering assistance only to those who express an interest in doing so.
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Screening and brief intervention for obesity in primary care: a parallel, two-arm, randomised trial.
Paul Aveyard,Amanda L. Lewis,Sarah Tearne,Kathryn Hood,Anna Christian-Brown,Peymane Adab,Rachna Begh,Kate Jolly,Amanda Daley,Amanda Farley,Deborah Lycett,Alecia Nickless,Ly-Mee Yu,Lise Retat,Laura Webber,Laura Pimpin,Susan A. Jebb +16 more
TL;DR: A behaviourally-informed, very brief, physician-delivered opportunistic intervention is acceptable to patients and an effective way to reduce population mean weight in patients with obesity.