Boosting Chinese Healthcare Service Providers' Utilization of Smoking Cessation Interventions by 'WeChat WeQuit' Program
- Conditions
- Smoking AbstinenceSmoking Cessation Intervention
- Interventions
- Behavioral: 'WeChat WeQuit' smoking cessation training program
- Registration Number
- NCT03556774
- Lead Sponsor
- Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital
- Brief Summary
In this single-blind, randomized trial, undertaken in China with 8-week interventions and follow-up to 52 weeks, about 2,200 providers will be randomly allocated to the intervention or control group.
- Detailed Description
Previous studies have been showed that providing behavioral and pharmacotherapy interventions for cigarette smoking patients was effective but rare among Chinese healthcare service providers. In order to minimize the huge gap between the shortage and demand for smoking cessation training program and smoking cessation service, this 'WeChat WeQuit' smoking cessation training program has been designed to assess whether it will increase Chinese healthcare service providers' utilization of behavioral and pharmacotherapy interventions for cigarette smoking cessation or not.
In this single-blind, randomized trial, about 2200 HSPs will be randomly selected (by randomizeR, https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=randomizeR) to 8-week intervention (behavioral and pharmacotherapy interventions for cigarette smoking patients to help them quit smoking) group or control group that only communicates without any standard smoking cessation practices related messages, and follow-up to 52 weeks. The trial will be carried out in into two phases, the first phase is the pilot study (n=200, 8-week intervention and follow-up to 16 weeks) and the second is the main study (n=2000, 8-week intervention and follow-up to 52 weeks). It is hypothesized that 'WeChat WeQuit' training program will improve Chinese HSPs' utilization of behavioral and pharmacotherapy interventions for cigarette smoking cessation and increase quit rate for smoking patients.
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- UNKNOWN
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 2200
- Chinese-speaking healthcare service providers
- Know how to use WeChat
- Use WeChat on a daily basis
- Willing to provide informed consent to participate in the study -
- Non-Chinese speakers
- Not healthcare service providers
- Do not use WeChat
- Unwilling to participate in the study -
Study & Design
- Study Type
- INTERVENTIONAL
- Study Design
- PARALLEL
- Arm && Interventions
Group Intervention Description With smoking cessation training 'WeChat WeQuit' smoking cessation training program Participants who allocate to the intervention group will receive regular smoking cessation training program messages by professional team. One to six messages will be sent per day for 8 weeks. Hand copy of behavioral and pharmacotherapy interventions manual will send to each HSP by mail after randomization. One to three messages will be sent per week until the end of the 1-year follow-up. They will also be encouraged to communicate the experience of using behavioral and pharmacotherapy interventions in their group.
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method The effectiveness of 'WeChat WeQuit' training program. 52 weeks The utilization rate (i.e. rate=smokers treated divided by smokers seen) of behavioral and pharmacotherapy interventions by HSP for smoking patients from 8 to 52-week.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Prevalence of smoking abstinence 24 weeks The proportion of smoking patients with 7-day point prevalence smoking abstinence (not even a puff of smoke, for the last 7 days) at 4, 8, 12, 16, 20 and continuously abstinence assessed at 24-weeks follow-up.
Trial Locations
- Locations (1)
Yanhui Liao
🇨🇳Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China