To compare the effectiveness of using nicotine chewing gum with behavioral counselling versus doing yoga with behavioral counselling in quitting tobacco among Delhi government bus drivers: Cluster Randomized Trial
Not Applicable
Completed
- Conditions
- Health Condition 1: F172- Nicotine dependence
- Registration Number
- CTRI/2020/04/024462
- Lead Sponsor
- Shristy Sharma
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Completed
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 100
Inclusion Criteria
1. A daily smoke/ smokeless/ mixed form of tobacco users
2. Those who will give consent and are able to read and write local language
3. Patients having medium dependence score according to fagerstrom scale for smoking and modified fagerstrom scale for smokeless tobacco.
Exclusion Criteria
1 Participants not willing to participate.
2 Participants who are completely edentulous.
3 Participants suffering from TMJ problems.
4 Participants practicing yoga regularly.
5 Participants who have used/ using nrt or experienced side-effects due to nrt.
6 Participants who are medically compromised in
which practicing yoga is contraindicated.
7 Participants with dental emergency.
8 Participants who consume alcohol.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Effectiveness of two methods on the basis of quit status; quit reduction and status quo. To assess and compare the biochemically verified urine cotinine levels using qualitative test at different time intervals among both groupTimepoint: 0 day, 1st week, 1st month, 3rd month, 6th month
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method To assess and compare knowledge, attitude and practice regarding tobacco cessation and its ill effects <br/ ><br>To measure oral health status of bus drivers <br/ ><br>To develop yoga protocol for tobacco cessation based on the study <br/ ><br>Timepoint: 0 day, 1st week, 1st month, 3rd month, 6th month