Effectiveness of a French Automated Web-based Smoking Cessation Program

Tobacco Consumption Clinical Trial

— Stamp  

Official title:

Effectiveness of a French Automated Web-based Smoking Cessation Program : a Randomized Controlled Trial

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT01073085
• Other study ID #: Stamp
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: February 19, 2010
• Last updated: January 16, 2014
• Start date: March 2010
• Est. completion date: January 2012

Study information

• Verified date: January 2014
• Source: Institut national de prevention et d'education pour la sante
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: France: Ministry of Health
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

The purpose of this study is to investigate the effectiveness of a French fully automated web-based smoking cessation program known as the "coaching", by comparing it to an online self-help guide.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 2478
• Est. completion date: January 2012
• Est. primary completion date: December 2011
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: Both
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Aged 18 and older

• Smoker

• Willing to quit smoking in the next two weeks

• Having a regular access to Internet

• Having a personal e-mail address

• Not having benefited from the "coaching" the investigators want to assess yet

Exclusion Criteria:

• No personal e-mail address

• Not able to give the informed consent

Study Design

Allocation: Randomized, Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Single Blind (Subject), Primary Purpose: Prevention

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Tobacco Consumption

Intervention

Behavioral:
• Web-based automated "coaching" by e-mails

• Self-help guide

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
France	Institut national de prevention et d'education pour la sante	Saint Denis

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Institut national de prevention et d'education pour la sante

Country where clinical trial is conducted

France, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Comparison of the percentage of abstinent people between the two arms of the trial, 6 months after inclusion	The investigators will compare the percentage of smokers who successfully quit, 6 months after their inclusion in the study. Point prevalence abstinence will be measured (not smoking, event a puff, in the week preceding the questioning).	6 months after inclusion	No