Empower Korean Families to End Tobacco Use & Smoking Exposure

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Smoking Cessation; Lifestyle Risk Reduction
• Interventions: Behavioral: Healthy Living; Behavioral: Tobacco

• Registration Number: NCT04079569
• Lead Sponsor: University of California, San Francisco

Brief Summary

The goals of the study are to develop a culturally and linguistically appropriate intervention to promote smoking cessation and reduce secondhand smoke exposure for Korean Americans using a family-based intervention approach targeting Korean Americans ages 18 and above in the greater San Francisco Bay Area, CA, and to evaluate efficacy of the proposed intervention. The study is a randomized control trial targeting a total of 8 lay health workers (LHW) and 48 dyads of a daily smoker and a partner who will attend intervention sessions together. The research question is: Can a family-based lay health worker outreach intervention promote smoking cessation and reduce SHS exposure among Korean Americans?

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2019-08-19
• Study First Submitted: 2019-09-03
• Study First Submitted QC: 2019-09-03
• Study First Posted: 2019-09-06
• Primary Completion: 2020-12-20
• Study Completion: 2021-03-31
• Status Verified: 2021-04
• Last Update Submitted: 2021-04-05
• Last Update Posted: 2021-04-08

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 112

Inclusion Criteria

• reside in California, United States
• for the smoker participants, they must have smoked at least 1 cigarette in the past 30 days, and have smoked either at least 1 cigarette and/or used e-cigarettes in the past 7 days, and self-identified as Korean or Korean American
• for partner participants, they must be willing to attend intervention session together with a smoker participant
• provide a valid contact telephone number and email address for pre- and post-intervention assessments

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Exclusion Criteria

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Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Healthy Living	Healthy Living	In this comparison arm, participants will receive education delivered by the lay health worker about "Healthy Living" focusing on nutrition and physical activity education. Participants will also receive the Smoking Cessation Resource Handout.
Tobacco	Tobacco	Participants will receive education delivered by a lay health worker on "Quit Smoking For a Healthy Family." Participants will receive written information on nutrition and physical activity.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Abstinence	3 months	Biochemically verified 7-day point prevalence of cigarette abstinence at 3-month post baseline assessment (initiation of intervention)
Secondhand smoke (SHS) exposure of non-smokers	3 months	Biochemically verified 7-day point prevalence of SHS exposure at 3-month post baseline assessment (initiation of intervention)
Percent attendance	3-month	Percent of participants who attend at least 3 out of 4 planned contacts
Percentage of participants who rate the intervention as helpful	3 months	Participants will rate their perception as to whether or not they found the intervention to be helpful at the 3 month assessment

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Number of Quit attempts	3 months	Self-report number participants making a quit attempt(s) that lasted at least for 24 hours since baseline

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Korean Community Center of the East Bay; 🇺🇸 San Leandro, California, United States