MassCONECT (Massachusetts Community Networks to Eliminate Cancer Disparities Through Education) 4 Kids: Promoting Smoke-free Homes

Tobacco Smoking Behavior Clinical Trial

Official title: MassCONECT 4 Kids: Promoting Smoke-free Homes MassCONECT (Massachusetts Community Networks to Eliminate Cancer Disparities Through Education)

Status Completed

Clinical Trial Summary

This study evaluates the effectiveness of a motivational interviewing intervention with families with young children ages 0-5 where smoking is happening in the home to adopt a smoke-free home plan and reduce child's second-hand smoke exposure.

Clinical Trial Description

Involuntary secondhand smoke (SHS) exposure in homes is an entirely preventable public health threat that disproportionately burdens young children in communities of low socioeconomic position. Breathe Free For Kids is a community-based participatory research (CBPR) initiative to evaluate the effectiveness of Ml compared with usual best practices (UBP) by having parents voluntarily adopt smoke-free home policies to protect children from SHS. The Motivational Interviewing intervention protocol was developed in conjunction with community partners, integrated into a health department-sponsored home visiting program for high-risk children and other community-based agencies serving children, and delivered by trained community health workers. ;

Study Design

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

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Tobacco Smoking Behavior

• NCT number: NCT01537874
• Study type: Interventional
• Source: Harvard School of Public Health
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: May 2010
• Completion date: April 2013