DPBRN Hygienists Internet Quality Improvement in Tobacco Cessation (HiQuit)

Smoking Cessation Clinical Trial

— HiQuit  

Official title:

Hygienists Internet Tobacco Cessation Study (HiQuit)

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT01108432
• Other study ID #: 122286
• Secondary ID: U01DE016747
• Status: Completed
• Phase: Phase 0
• First received: April 20, 2010
• Last updated: January 24, 2013
• Start date: April 2010
• Est. completion date: June 2011

Study information

• Verified date: January 2013
• Source: Dental Practice-Based Research Network
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: United States: Institutional Review Board
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

Our overall goal is to advance science related to using the Internet in health services delivery, and specifically smoking cessation by targeting dental hygienists. Our proposed intervention is the first Internet-delivered intervention to target the dental microsystem for smoking cessation-providing access to hygienists and patients.

Description:

This study is designed to allow dental hygienists and dentists to provide additional tobacco cessation counseling with little additional marginal effort. This would be done using an Internet-based referral to external resources. This system, termed "ReferASmoker", will allow hygienists and dentists to refer patients to a patient education, self-management website, "Decide2Quit" and accompanying Quitline, while the patient is still in the dental office. We anticipate that hygienists will be the primary drivers of this intervention. Our intervention has several innovations designed to support the dental practice in their tobacco cessation activities and maximize patient cessation rates. We will randomize 80 community-based primary dental practices into a clinical trial.

Aim 1. To test hypothesis 1(H1)that the number of patients REFERRED to the self-management resource website will be larger in the intervention practices compared to control practices.

Aim 2. To test hypothesis 2 (H2) that the proportion of patients referred who GO to the patient self-management website will be larger in intervention practices compared to control practices

Aim 3. To test hypothesis 3 (H3) that the proportion of smokers who are referred who QUIT at six months will be larger among intervention compared to control because of the additional connectivity of the intervention.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 80
• Est. completion date: June 2011
• Est. primary completion date: June 2011
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: Both
• Age group: 19 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Community-based practices with internet access available in the office seeing an average of five or more smokers in a week.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Exclude practices that have ongoing computer-based smoking cessation programs for patients.

Study Design

Allocation: Randomized, Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Double Blind (Subject, Investigator, Outcomes Assessor), Primary Purpose: Treatment

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Smoking Cessation

Intervention

Other:
• Electronic Referral
Dental practices in this arm will be able to have option of making electronic patient referrals to the Decide2Quit website.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	University of Alabama at Birmingham	Birmingham	Alabama
United States	Health Partners Research Foundation	Minneapolis	Minnesota

Sponsors (4)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Dental Practice-Based Research Network	HealthPartners Institute, University of Alabama at Birmingham, University of Massachusetts, Worcester

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Number of smokers referred to tobacco cessation website	We will asses the number of patient referrals that the dental hygienists make to the tobacco cessation website.	12 months	No
Secondary	Proportion of smokers who go to the tobacco cessation website	We will assess the proportion of smokers who were referred to the tobacco cessation website to the number of patients who registered on the website.	12 months	No
Secondary	Point prevalence smoking cessation	Tobacco cessation behaviors will be assessed by follow-up email and/or telephone interviews at six months from website enrollment.	6 months	No