Provider Training in Increasing Patient Tobacco Cessation Counseling and Referrals for Patients With Cancer Undergoing Radiation Therapy

Tobacco Use Clinical Trial

Official title:

Integrating Tobacco Cessation Coaching Sessions Into Radiation Medicine Treatment: A Pilot Study

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT03135782
• Other study ID #: STUDY00016428
• Secondary ID: NCI-2017-00576ST
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: August 1, 2017
• Est. completion date: September 23, 2020

Study information

• Verified date: March 2021
• Source: OHSU Knight Cancer Institute
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

This pilot clinical trial studies how well provider training works in increasing patient tobacco cessation counseling and referrals for patients with cancer undergoing radiation therapy. Health care provider training in motivational interviewing techniques and utilizing tobacco cessation resources may help doctors understand how health care providers can effectively increase their confidence in talking to patients about tobacco cessation counseling.

Description:

PRIMARY OBJECTIVES: I. To determine if training providers on tobacco cessation resources increases the frequency of counseling and referrals at initial and follow-up consultations for cancer patients who use tobacco and are scheduled to receive radiation at Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU). SECONDARY OBJECTIVES: I. Increase provider frequency of tobacco use quantification and type. II. Increase frequency of provider assessment of tobacco cessation readiness in current users. III. Increase frequency and types of tobacco cessation resources and medicines offered and utilized. IV. Increase frequency and type of follow-up planned if referred to cessation resource. OUTLINE: MEDICAL CHART REVIEW: Medical charts from patients with diagnoses of head and neck cancer, lung cancer, prostate cancer, or breast cancer are reviewed at months 1-12 to determine the frequency of tobacco assessments and documentation of discussions with patients regarding tobacco use and utilization of cessation resources as before and after the proposed training. PROVIDER TRAINING: Providers undergo training to use patient coaching such as the 5A's (Ask, Advise, Assess, Assist, and Arrange), to conduct regular tobacco intake assessment using motivational interviewing techniques. Providers also undergo training to use public/community tobacco cessation resources for patients ready to quit within six weeks, and have access to pharmacy residents for ad-hoc prescribing questions. PATIENT COACHING: Patients attend 4 phone or in-person motivational interviewing coaching sessions over 30-45 minutes for 6-8 weeks or longer as needed.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 2
• Est. completion date: September 23, 2020
• Est. primary completion date: September 23, 2020
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: N/A and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• MEDICAL CHART REVIEW
• Pre-intervention: 200 patient records between January 1, 2016 and December 31, 2016 are subject to review; the first 50 records with a diagnoses of each cancer type: head and neck, lung, prostate, or breast will be utilized for the review
• Post-intervention: 200 patient records receiving care beginning six months post training are subject to review; the first 50 records with a diagnoses of head and neck, lung, prostate, or breast will be utilized
• PROVIDER TRAINING
• OHSU Radiation Medicine department has agreed to participate as pilot department for this project; all active Radiation Medicine providers are requested to participate in the training; providers have the option to not participate
• TOBACCO CESSATION COACHING
• Patients who are at least 18 years of age
• Speak English
• Report tobacco use within the past 7 days
• Willing to consider quitting smoking
• Patients must be willing to meet four times in person or on the phone to discuss tobacco use
• Patients must be willing to be audio recorded during the sessions
• Patients who meet this criteria will be referred to OHSU Health Promotion Sports Medicine researcher, Carol DeFrancesco, to complete assessment using stages of change tobacco use readiness ruler and question set
• Patient smoking status will be documented in their electronic health record, per routine care

Exclusion Criteria:

• Vulnerable Populations
• The following groups will be excluded from participation:
• Children
• Decisionally impaired adults
• Prisoners
• Pregnant women

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Breast Carcinoma
• Breast Neoplasms
• Carcinoma
• Caregiver
• Head and Neck Carcinoma
• Lung Carcinoma
• Prostate Carcinoma
• Prostatic Neoplasms
• Tobacco Use

Intervention

Other:
• Communication Skills Training
Undergo motivational interviewing training
• Medical Chart Review
Undergo medical chart review
• Questionnaire Administration
Ancillary studies
• Tobacco Cessation Counseling
Attend phone or in-person motivational interviewing coaching sessions

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	OHSU Knight Cancer Institute	Portland	Oregon

Sponsors (2)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
OHSU Knight Cancer Institute	Oregon Health and Science University

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

References & Publications (1)

Holland JM, Holland E, Chen Y, Brown SA. Smoking history and cessation discussions in cancer patients receiving definitive radiotherapy: Do we treat all patients equally? Tob Prev Cessat. 2020 May 22;6:31. doi: 10.18332/tpc/120308. eCollection 2020. — View Citation

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Change in frequency of tobacco counsel	Will be compared between the cohort of pre and post intervention. Will be summarized using descriptive statistics and compared using chi-square test by tumor type.	Baseline up to 24 months
Secondary	Change in frequency and type of follow-up planned if referred to cessation resource assessed by medical chart review	Will be summarized using descriptive statistics and compared using chi-square test by tumor type.	Baseline up to 24 months
Secondary	Change in frequency and types of tobacco cessation resources and medicines offered and utilized assessed by medical chart review	Will be tested using a chi-squared test. If any expected cell count in the contingency table is lower than 5, we will instead use Fisher's exact test.	Baseline up to 24 months
Secondary	Change in frequency of provider assessment of tobacco cessation readiness in current users assessed by medical chart review	Will be summarized using descriptive statistics and compared using chi-square test by tumor type.	Baseline up to 24 months
Secondary	Change in provider frequency of tobacco use quantification and type assessed by medical chart review	Will be summarized using descriptive statistics and compared using chi-square test by tumor type. Will be tested using Z tests of proportion.	Baseline up to 24 months