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DPBRN Hygienists Internet Quality Improvement in Tobacco Cessation (HiQuit)

This study has been completed.
Sponsor:
Collaborators:
University of Alabama at Birmingham
University of Massachusetts, Worcester
HealthPartners Institute for Education and Research
Information provided by (Responsible Party):
Dental Practice-Based Research Network
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
NCT01108432
First received: April 20, 2010
Last updated: January 24, 2013
Last verified: January 2013
History of Changes
  Purpose

Our overall goal is to advance science related to using the Internet in health services delivery, and specifically smoking cessation by targeting dental hygienists. Our proposed intervention is the first Internet-delivered intervention to target the dental microsystem for smoking cessation-providing access to hygienists and patients.


Condition Intervention Phase
Smoking Cessation
 Other: Electronic Referral
 Phase 0

Study Type: Interventional
Study Design: Allocation: Randomized
Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Double Blind (Subject, Investigator, Outcomes Assessor)
Primary Purpose: Treatment
Official Title: Hygienists Internet Tobacco Cessation Study (HiQuit)

Resource links provided by NLM:

U.S. FDA Resources

Further study details as provided by Dental Practice-Based Research Network:

Primary Outcome Measures:
  • Number of smokers referred to tobacco cessation website [ Time Frame: 12 months ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
    We will asses the number of patient referrals that the dental hygienists make to the tobacco cessation website.


Secondary Outcome Measures:
  • Proportion of smokers who go to the tobacco cessation website [ Time Frame: 12 months ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
    We will assess the proportion of smokers who were referred to the tobacco cessation website to the number of patients who registered on the website.

  • Point prevalence smoking cessation [ Time Frame: 6 months ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
    Tobacco cessation behaviors will be assessed by follow-up email and/or telephone interviews at six months from website enrollment.


Enrollment: 80
Study Start Date: April 2010
Study Completion Date: June 2011
Primary Completion Date: June 2011 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
Arms Assigned Interventions
Experimental: Electronic Referrals
Dental practices randomized to the experimental group will have options on how to refer patients to the tobacco cessation website.
 Other: Electronic Referral
Dental practices in this arm will be able to have option of making electronic patient referrals to the Decide2Quit website.
No Intervention: Routine Referral
Dental practices in this arm will refer patients to the Decide2Quit website by using an information prescription.

Detailed Description:

This study is designed to allow dental hygienists and dentists to provide additional tobacco cessation counseling with little additional marginal effort. This would be done using an Internet-based referral to external resources. This system, termed "ReferASmoker", will allow hygienists and dentists to refer patients to a patient education, self-management website, "Decide2Quit" and accompanying Quitline, while the patient is still in the dental office. We anticipate that hygienists will be the primary drivers of this intervention. Our intervention has several innovations designed to support the dental practice in their tobacco cessation activities and maximize patient cessation rates. We will randomize 80 community-based primary dental practices into a clinical trial.

Aim 1. To test hypothesis 1(H1)that the number of patients REFERRED to the self-management resource website will be larger in the intervention practices compared to control practices.

Aim 2. To test hypothesis 2 (H2) that the proportion of patients referred who GO to the patient self-management website will be larger in intervention practices compared to control practices

Aim 3. To test hypothesis 3 (H3) that the proportion of smokers who are referred who QUIT at six months will be larger among intervention compared to control because of the additional connectivity of the intervention.

  Eligibility

Ages Eligible for Study:   19 Years and older
Genders Eligible for Study:   Both
Accepts Healthy Volunteers:   Yes
Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Community-based practices with internet access available in the office seeing an average of five or more smokers in a week.

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Exclude practices that have ongoing computer-based smoking cessation programs for patients.
  Contacts and Locations
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01108432

Locations
United States, Alabama
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Birmingham, Alabama, United States, 35294
United States, Minnesota
Health Partners Research Foundation
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Sponsors and Collaborators
Dental Practice-Based Research Network
University of Alabama at Birmingham
University of Massachusetts, Worcester
HealthPartners Institute for Education and Research
Investigators
Study Chair: Gregg H. GIlbert, DDS, MBA Dental Practice-Based Research Network (DPBRN)
Principal Investigator: Midge N. Ray, RN, MSN, CCS University of Alabama School of Health Professons at Birmingham
  More Information

No publications provided

Responsible Party: Dental Practice-Based Research Network
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01108432     History of Changes
Other Study ID Numbers: 122286, U01DE16747
Study First Received: April 20, 2010
Last Updated: January 24, 2013
Health Authority: United States: Institutional Review Board

Keywords provided by Dental Practice-Based Research Network:
Tobacco cessation counseling

Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Smoking
Habits

ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on May 21, 2013