Helping Poor Smokers Quit

Smoking Cessation Clinical Trial

Official title: Helping the Poor Quit Smoking: Specialized Quitlines and Meeting Basic Needs

Status Completed

Clinical Trial Summary

Using a 2x2 randomized factorial design, we will conduct a statewide field trial in Missouri to compare the relative and combined effects of these two strategies for augmenting an existing, evidence-based tobacco quitline program. Among 2000 low-income smokers, half will receive standard Missouri quitline services and half will receive new Specialized Quitline services targeted to this group. In each of these groups, half also will receive calls from a trained navigator to help them address unmet Basic Needs and the accompanying psychological distress that act as barriers to smoking cessation.

Clinical Trial Description

2-1-1 information specialists will deliver standard service, then ask a random number of callers per day if they would be willing to answer a few health questions as part of a new 2-1-1 service. Callers eligible to receive the invitation to screen for study eligibility will be: Missouri residents, calling for themselves, English-speaking, and not in acute crisis. Eligible smokers will then be asked if they are willing to share their contact information with a research team conducting a study to help smokers quit. Smokers who agree to share their contact information will be considered "enrolled". Trained 2-1-1 operators will record all recruitment screening data in a secure electronic database that is shared with research staff. Research staff will attempt to reach enrolled smokers by phone by the next business day.

Alere, through the Missouri Tobacco Quitline, will provide quitline services to smokers in all study conditions. Contact information and study group assignment for smokers will be provided to Alere via secure data transfer. ;

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Nicotine Dependence
• Nicotine Dependence Tobacco Product
• Nicotine Dependence, Cigarettes
• Nicotine Use Disorder
• Smoking
• Smoking (Tobacco) Addiction
• Smoking Cessation
• Smoking, Cigarette
• Smoking, Pipe
• Smoking, Tobacco
• Tobacco Dependence
• Tobacco Smoking
• Tobacco Use
• Tobacco Use Cessation
• Tobacco Use Disorder
• Tobacco; Use, Rehabilitation

• NCT number: NCT03194958
• Study type: Interventional
• Source: Washington University School of Medicine
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: June 5, 2017
• Completion date: July 1, 2022