Provision of Service of a YQL Programme For Youth Smokers

Not Applicable

• Conditions: Mental Health Issue
• Interventions: Behavioral: 5A's model

• Registration Number: NCT05148520
• Lead Sponsor: The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Brief Summary

This project is funded by Department of Health. We will run a quitline which provides telephone smoking cessation counseling to youth smokers aged 25 or below. After baseline counseling based on trans-theoretical model, follow-up counseling will be provided by trained counselors (i.e. nursing students or students from other healthrelated disciplines) at 1 week, 1, 3, 6, 9 and 12 months. It is expected that the quitline can assist youth smokers to quit smoking, thus saving the healthcare cost attributed to smoking in long-term.

Detailed Description

This project will last for 15 months (from 1st Dec 2020 to 28th Feb 2022). Prior to commencement, a month will be spent on preparation, including setting up the quitline and website, designing and printing publicity materials, connecting with secondary and post-secondary schools and training peer counsellors. We will operate the quitline for 15 months and provide telephone counselling for eligible youth smokers. Self-reported quitters at 6-month follow-up will be invited for biochemical validation.

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2020-11-01
• Status Verified: 2021-11
• Study First Submitted: 2021-11-25
• Study First Submitted QC: 2021-11-25
• Last Update Submitted: 2021-11-25
• Study First Posted: 2021-12-08
• Last Update Posted: 2021-12-08
• Primary Completion: 2022-12-01
• Study Completion: 2022-12-01

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: UNKNOWN
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 400

Inclusion Criteria

• Aged 25 or below
• Self-reported to smoke any types of tobacco products within the past 1 month
• Speak Cantonese and
• Provide verbal consent to counselling service.

Exclusion Criteria

• have psychiatric disease
• and/or currently receive any smoking cessation intervention from other service providers

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: SINGLE_GROUP

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
5A's model	5A's model	The practice guideline emphasizes on the use of '5A's' model that contains five major steps in providing smoking cessation counselling. Specifically, our counsellors will take the following steps to provide telephone counselling for youth smokers who are ready to quit smoking

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Self-reported 7-point prevalence	at the 6-month follow-up	The self-reported abstinence will be validated if the level of carbon monoxide in expired air was less than 4 parts per million and saliva cotinine level was less than100 ng/mL in parallel tests.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Ka Yan Ho; 🇭🇰 Hong Kong, Hong Kong,China, Hong Kong