Web-based Smoking Cessation Intervention: Transition From Inpatient to Outpatient

This study is currently recruiting participants.

Verified February 2013 by University of Alabama at Birmingham

Sponsor:

Collaborator:

National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)

Information provided by (Responsible Party):

Kathy Harrington, University of Alabama at Birmingham

ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:

NCT01277250

First received: January 12, 2011

Last updated: February 3, 2013

Last verified: February 2013

History of Changes

Purpose

This project, "Web-based Smoking Cessation Intervention: transition from inpatient to outpatient," addresses smoking among hospitalized patients, whose rates are higher than among the general population. Hospitalization offers a unique opportunity to intervene, as it requires temporary abstinence and patients are focused on health concerns. Hypotheses: A tailored web-based and e-message smoking cessation program for current smokers that, upon hospital discharge, transitions the patient to continue a quit attempt when home will be effective. Further, the investigators hypothesize that this approach will be cost-effective. Specific Aims: 1. To test the effectiveness of a web-based smoking cessation intervention. 2. To determine the cost-effectiveness of this approach. Research Design - Methods: A randomized two-arm follow-up design will be used to test the effectiveness of an evidence- and theoretically-based smoking cessation program designed for post-hospitalization. Patients randomized to this arm will be contacted by hospital staff, trained as 'transition coaches,' to engage in Decide2Quit, an interactive web-based program that offers personalized and tailored messages, e-group support, and text messages promoting tobacco abstinence. All hospitalized patients will receive standardized smoking cessation materials. As well, physicians can order nicotine replacement therapy via the hospital's electronic order system. The investigators primary outcome is biologically confirmed and self-reported tobacco abstinence at 6 months follow-up; the investigators will also assess self-reported quit rates at 3 and 12 months and variables hypothesized to predict quit success. We will measure health care utilization and quality of life to allow testing the cost-effectiveness of this program conducted from the perspective of a hospital, health care payers, patients and society. Significance of results: At study completion the investigators will know whether imbedding smoking cessation into usual hospital care, with minimal hospital-staff burden, and an interactive web-based tailored intervention program is an effective way to reduce smoking rates among hospitalized patients, and if it is cost-effective. This program will be an "off the shelf approach that could be disseminated easily.

Condition	Intervention	Phase
Cigarette Smoking	Behavioral: Web-based smoking cessation program	Phase 4

Study Type:	Interventional
Study Design:	Allocation: Randomized Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment Masking: Single Blind (Outcomes Assessor) Primary Purpose: Treatment
Official Title:	Web-based Smoking Cessation Intervention: Transition From Inpatient to Outpatient

Resource links provided by NLM:

MedlinePlus related topics: Quitting Smoking Smoking

U.S. FDA Resources

Further study details as provided by University of Alabama at Birmingham:

Primary Outcome Measures:

Smoking abstinence [ Time Frame: 6 months ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
Biochemically-verified (cotinine) and self-reported tobacco abstinence

Secondary Outcome Measures:

Smoking abstinence [ Time Frame: 3 and 12 months ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
self-reported tobacco abstinence

Estimated Enrollment:	1488
Study Start Date:	July 2011
Estimated Study Completion Date:	June 2014
Estimated Primary Completion Date:	May 2013 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)

Arms	Assigned Interventions
Usual Care Standard smoking cessation information provided to all hospitalized patients as part of discharge packet.	Behavioral: Web-based smoking cessation program Web-based smoking cessation program that includes a "transition coach" to hospitalized patients who will assist them in quitting as they are discharged from the hospital. Intervention arm participants will have access to a tailored web-based intervention that will include e-messages and activities that are tailored to their recent hospital stay. Other Names: Tobacco Treatment Behavioral Counseling Computer-Assisted Treatment
Experimental: Smoking Cessation Program Web-based program tailored to patients who smoke and are hospitalized. Program is tailored to participant's specific hospital experience and other characteristics. E-messages, social support and a "transition coach" are provided to each participant in this condition.	Behavioral: Web-based smoking cessation program Web-based smoking cessation program that includes a "transition coach" to hospitalized patients who will assist them in quitting as they are discharged from the hospital. Intervention arm participants will have access to a tailored web-based intervention that will include e-messages and activities that are tailored to their recent hospital stay. Other Names: Tobacco Treatment Behavioral Counseling Computer-Assisted Treatment

Arms

Assigned Interventions

Usual Care

Standard smoking cessation information provided to all hospitalized patients as part of discharge packet.

Behavioral: Web-based smoking cessation program

Web-based smoking cessation program that includes a "transition coach" to hospitalized patients who will assist them in quitting as they are discharged from the hospital. Intervention arm participants will have access to a tailored web-based intervention that will include e-messages and activities that are tailored to their recent hospital stay.

Other Names:

Tobacco Treatment
Behavioral Counseling
Computer-Assisted Treatment

Experimental: Smoking Cessation Program

Web-based program tailored to patients who smoke and are hospitalized. Program is tailored to participant's specific hospital experience and other characteristics. E-messages, social support and a "transition coach" are provided to each participant in this condition.

Behavioral: Web-based smoking cessation program

Other Names:

Tobacco Treatment
Behavioral Counseling
Computer-Assisted Treatment

Eligibility

Ages Eligible for Study:	19 Years and older
Genders Eligible for Study:	Both
Accepts Healthy Volunteers:	No

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

19 years of age or older
Current smoker (at least one puff in the last 30 days)
Regular (at least weekly) email/internet access
Can read and speak English
Can communicate well enough to provide meaningful responses to the screening questions and informed consent
Well enough to participate (provide meaningful responses to the screening questions and informed consent)
On standard or contact isolation only
Cognitively able to participate (to provide meaningful responses to the screening questions and informed consent)
Does not have another household member participating in this study

Exclusion Criteria:

Under age 19
Non-smoker
Cannot read and speak English
No email/internet access
Cannot communicate well enough to provide meaningful responses to the screening questions and informed consent
Too ill to participate (provide meaningful responses to the screening questions and informed consent)
On isolation precautions other than standard or contact
Cognitively unable to participate (to provide meaningful responses to the screening questions and informed consent)
Has another household member participating in this study

Contacts and Locations

Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01277250

Contacts

Contact: Julie A McDougal, MAE	205-996-6057	jmcdouga@uab.edu
Contact: Kathy F. Harrington, PhD, MPH	205-996-5889	kharring@uab.edu

Locations

United States, Alabama
The University of Alabama at Birmingham - Lung Health Center	Recruiting
Birmingham, Alabama, United States, 35249
Contact: Julie A McDougal, MAE 205-996-6057 jmcdouga@uab.edu
Contact: Kathy F Harrington, PhD, MPH 205-996-5889 kharring@uab.edu
Principal Investigator: Kathy F Harrington, PhD, MPH

Sponsors and Collaborators

University of Alabama at Birmingham

National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)

Investigators

Principal Investigator:

Kathy F Harrington, PhD, MPH

The University of Alabama at Birmingham

More Information

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Additional publications automatically indexed to this study by ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier (NCT Number):

Harrington KF, McDougal JA, Pisu M, Zhang B, Sadasivam RS, Houston TK, Bailey WC; CHART Collaborative Group. Web-based smoking cessation intervention that transitions from inpatient to outpatient: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial. Trials. 2012 Aug 1;13:123. doi: 10.1186/1745-6215-13-123.

Responsible Party:	Kathy Harrington, Associate Professor, University of Alabama at Birmingham
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:	NCT01277250 History of Changes
Other Study ID Numbers:	1U01DA031515-01
Study First Received:	January 12, 2011
Last Updated:	February 3, 2013
Health Authority:	United States: Institutional Review Board United States: Federal Government

Keywords provided by University of Alabama at Birmingham:

Hospitalized adults
Tobacco users
Smokers

Smoking cessation
Web-based
Transition coach

Additional relevant MeSH terms:

Smoking
Habits

ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on May 19, 2013

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