Prevent Exposure to Tobacco Smoke at Home [Gesunde Atemluft zu Hause]

Not Applicable

• Conditions: Smoking; Passive Smoking; Exposure to Environmental Smoke
• Interventions: Behavioral: bio-chemical feedback and expert system intervention ETS

• Registration Number: NCT00647413
• Lead Sponsor: University Medicine Greifswald

Brief Summary

Background: Infants are at risk for tobacco-attributable diseases by being exposed to environmental tobacco smoke (ETS). International literature has shown that a home smoking ban can reduce ETS. The purpose of this study is to examine whether a brief feedback about urinary cotinine in infants and a counselling session about the consequences of ETS leads to a reduction of ETS.

All families with children up to an age of three years in the study region will be contacted by mail and asked for participation in this study. They will be randomised into an intervention and one control group. The intervention group will receive a ETS counselling session and detailed analysis of urinary cotinine (a biomarker of ETS) at their home. They will further receive written feedback approx. 2 weeks later. The control group will be visited and will answer a questionnaire and will receive brochures about ETS. They will receive a standard analysis feedback of urinary cotinine. There will be oine further assessment/ visit 12 months later. The outcome of this study is an anlysis of urinary cotinine and smoking behaviour and changes in cotinine and smoking behaviour.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Status Verified: 2008-03
• Study First Submitted: 2008-03-26
• Study First Submitted QC: 2008-03-28
• Last Update Submitted: 2008-03-28
• Study First Posted: 2008-03-31
• Last Update Posted: 2008-03-31
• Study Start: 2008-05
• Primary Completion: 2010-06
• Study Completion: 2010-12

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: UNKNOWN
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 6000

Inclusion Criteria

• born in 2005, 2006 or 2007,
• being exposed to environmental tobacco smoke at home by at least one parent, living in the study region of west pommerania

Exclusion Criteria

Not provided

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: FACTORIAL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
2	bio-chemical feedback and expert system intervention ETS	expert system intervention on smoking behaviour + feedback of a biomarker

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
exposure to environmental tobacco smoke	6 months

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
smoking behaviour	6 months

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Institut für Epidemiologie und Sozialmedizin; 🇩🇪 Greifswald, MV, Germany