Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Smoking Cessation in the Primary Care Setting

Smoking Cessation Clinical Trial

— ACT  

Official title:

Individual, Telephone-delivered Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Smoking Cessation in the Primary Healthcare Setting: Feasibility and Potential Efficacy

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT01652508
• Other study ID #: HHSRF9101421
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: July 26, 2012
• Last updated: October 26, 2017
• Start date: July 2012
• Est. completion date: June 2015

Study information

• Verified date: October 2017
• Source: The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the feasibility and potential efficacy of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) in enhancing smoking cessation among attendees in primary healthcare settings.

Description:

The program is preventive and corrective, and carries brief messages by approaching and influencing services attendees who may not be able to reach in traditional reactive approach method of service users. Those traditional approaches are, for example, quitline and smoking cessation clinic. It can therefore benefit a larger population at low cost.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 156
• Est. completion date: June 2015
• Est. primary completion date: April 2015
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• aged 18 years and older

• currently smoking at least one cigarette per day in the past 30 days

• Hong Kong residents

• able to communicate in Cantonese

• currently residing in Hong Kong and expecting to continue to do so for the next 6 months

• have access to a telephone

Exclusion Criteria:

• currently undergoing another smoking cessation or similar program

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Smoking Cessation

Intervention

Other:
• Control
Participants in the control group are provided a self-help leaflet on smoking cessation only

Behavioral:
• Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
All participants are given an initial smoking cessation session via face to face by Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. Two other sessions using the same therapy will be provided by telephone. The total contact time by ACT will be 45 mins (15 mins per session).

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Hong Kong	School of Nursing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University	Hung Hom	Kowloon
Hong Kong	United Christian Nethersole Community Health Service, Kwong Fuk Community Health Centre	Tai Po	New Territories
Hong Kong	Heavenly Joy Family Clinic	Tin Shui Wai	New Territories

Sponsors (2)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University	Food and Health Bureau, Hong Kong

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Hong Kong, 

References & Publications (2)

Mak YW, Lee PH, Loke AY. Predictors of participation in a telephone-based Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for smoking cessation study. BMC Public Health. 2015 Dec 23;15:1288. doi: 10.1186/s12889-015-2650-0. — View Citation

Mak YW, Loke AY. The acceptance and commitment therapy for smoking cessation in the primary health care setting: a study protocol. BMC Public Health. 2015 Feb 7;15:105. doi: 10.1186/s12889-015-1485-z. — View Citation

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Other	Feasibility outcomes	Feasibility outcomes will be assessed in terms of participant recruitment, programme attendance and retention, their acceptance of physical cravings, emotions and thoughts related to smoking	1 year
Primary	7-day point prevalence by self report	self-reports on stopped smoking for a consecutive 7 days proceeding to the assessment at 6 months post-intervention	at 6 months
Secondary	validated self-report not smoking measured	Obtaining CO measurement and testing urinary cotinine for those participants who report quitting smoking	at 6 months after the baseline