Survey of Smokers Treated in the Emergency Department (ED) on Ownership and Usage of Cell Phones

Smoking Clinical Trial

Official title:

Survey of Smokers Treated in the ED on Ownership and Usage of Cell Phones

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT01820533
• Other study ID #: 0907005437-2
• Secondary ID: 5R01CA141479-04
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: March 25, 2013
• Last updated: August 21, 2014
• Start date: April 2013
• Est. completion date: July 2013

Study information

• Verified date: August 2014
• Source: Yale University
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: United States: Federal GovernmentUnited States: Institutional Review Board
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

To study ownership and use of cell phones in low-income smokers. This may help us better understand the impact of cell phone ownership plans on low income smokers' access to quitlines. Use of quitlines may be impeded by limited access to landline phones and limited airtime minutes on cell phones.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 775
• Est. completion date: July 2013
• Est. primary completion date: July 2013
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: Both
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Age 18 or over

• speak and understand English

• willing and able to give informed consent

• have smoked more than 100 cigarettes lifetime

• are currently a daily or some day smoker

Exclusion Criteria:

• too ill or unable to consent

• not interested in participation

• actively psychotic or mentally ill and unable to give consent

• in police custody

• resides in an extended care facility.

Study Design

Observational Model: Case-Only, Time Perspective: Cross-Sectional

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Smoking

Intervention

Other:
• Cell Phone Survey
Eight item survey for smokers being treated in the YNHH Emergency Dept. The survey asks about the type of cell phone(s) subjects have, how much they pay for cell service monthly, housing status, and if they receive any benefit that would qualify them for the Lifeline program.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	Yale University	New Haven	Connecticut

Sponsors (3)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Yale University	National Cancer Institute (NCI), National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Proportion of participants with lifeline wireless phones	The proportion of participants who have lifeline wireless phones (AKA "Medicaid phones").	baseline	No
Primary	proportion of participants with limited wireless minutes	The proportion of participants with limited wireless minutes each month, stratified by insurance.	baseline	No
Primary	proportion of participants with unlimited wireless minutes	The proportion of participants with unlimited wireless minutes each month, stratified by insurance status.	baseline	No