Provision of Service of a Youth Quitline Programme For Youth Smokers
Trial Snapshot
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Enrollment
- 400
- Locations
- 1
- Primary Endpoint
- Self-reported 7-point prevalence
Study Overview
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 Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Allocation
- Na
- Intervention Model
- Single Group
- Primary Purpose
- Supportive Care
- Masking
- None
Eligibility Criteria
- Ages
- — to 25 Years (Child, Adult)
- Sex
- All
- Accepts Healthy Volunteers
- Yes
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
Arms & Interventions
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
Intervention: 5A's model (Behavioral)
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Self-reported 7-point prevalence
Time Frame: 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.
Secondary Outcomes
No secondary outcomes reported
Investigators
Dr Eva Ho
Assistant Professor
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University