Protecting the 'Hood Against Tobacco

Smoking Clinical Trial

Official title:

Protecting the 'Hood Against Tobacco: Cessation Project

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT00187603
• Other study ID #: 12AT-1700
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: September 13, 2005
• Last updated: May 5, 2008
• Start date: July 2003
• Est. completion date: June 2007

Study information

• Verified date: August 2005
• Source: University of California, San Francisco
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: United States: Institutional Review Board
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

Among all racial/ethnic groups, African Americans have the greatest risk of becoming ill or dying from tobacco-related diseases. Because of this disproportionate disease burden, it is particularly urgent that researchers focusing on tobacco control partner with African American communities. Intervention strategies which hold the tobacco industry accountable for its behavior are effective in changing views of tobacco use. In earlier work, the investigators found that information from internal tobacco industry documents, when shown to African American smokers, stimulated reflection about quitting and interest in disseminating information about industry targeting behaviors to others. However, to date there have been no attempts to utilize the information in industry documents as part of a smoking cessation intervention. In this project, the investigators will test whether a community co-developed, tailored quit-smoking program featuring exposures to African American-specific tobacco industry documents and media exercises in addition to proven individual quitting strategies can increase the number of people who quit smoking at six months and one year, as compared with usual care.

The specific aims of the project are to:

1. test, using statistics, how well an innovative community-based, culturally tailored quit-smoking program for African Americans works at 6 and 12 months;

2. test selected variables for how well they predict who will return to smoking;

3. use interviews to identify additional individual and/or community factors associated with successful quitting or relapse; and

4. collect information to evaluate the overall effectiveness of the CARA project collaborative efforts in developing and sustaining the project over time, enhancing community awareness of tobacco issues, and creation or enhancement of community tobacco control resources.

Description:

Among all racial/ethnic groups, African Americans have the greatest risk of becoming ill or dying from tobacco-related diseases. Because of this disproportionate disease burden, it is particularly urgent that researchers focusing on tobacco control partner with African American communities. Intervention strategies which hold the tobacco industry accountable for its behavior are effective in changing views of tobacco use. In earlier work, we found that information from internal tobacco industry documents, when shown to African American smokers, stimulated reflection about quitting and interest in disseminating information about industry targeting behaviors to others. However, to date there have been no attempts to utilize the information in industry documents as part of a smoking cessation intervention. In this project, we will test whether a community co-developed, tailored quit-smoking program featuring exposures to African American-specific tobacco industry documents and media exercises in addition to proven individual quitting strategies can increase the number of people who quit smoking at six months and one year, as compared with usual care.

The specific aims of the project are to:

1. test, using statistics, how well an innovative community-based, culturally tailored quit-smoking program for African Americans works at 6 and 12 months;

2. test selected variables for how well they predict who will return to smoking;

3. use interviews to identify additional individual and/or community factors associated with successful quitting or relapse; and

4. collect information to evaluate the overall effectiveness of the CARA project collaborative efforts in developing and sustaining the project over time, enhancing community awareness of tobacco issues, and creation or enhancement of community tobacco control resources.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 270
• Est. completion date: June 2007
• Est. primary completion date: February 2007
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: Both
• Age group: 21 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• African American adults who have used tobacco in the last month

Exclusion Criteria:

• Unable to read or speak English

• Dependence on other substances (except for marijuana)

• Disabling health conditions that would prevent participation

Study Design

Allocation: Randomized, Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Open Label, Primary Purpose: Treatment

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Smoking

Intervention

Behavioral:
• tobacco cessation program

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	University of California San Francisco	San Francisco	California

Sponsors (2)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
University of California, San Francisco	Tobacco Related Disease Research Program

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Smoking cessation (cotinine validation)		at 6 and 12 months
Secondary	Qualitative interviews