Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Smoking Cessation in the Primary Care Setting

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Smoking Cessation
• Interventions: Other: Control; Behavioral: Acceptance and Commitment Therapy

• Registration Number: NCT01652508
• Lead Sponsor: The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Brief Summary

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the feasibility and potential efficacy of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) in enhancing smoking cessation among attendees in primary healthcare settings.

Detailed Description

The program is preventive and corrective, and carries brief messages by approaching and influencing services attendees who may not be able to reach in traditional reactive approach method of service users. Those traditional approaches are, for example, quitline and smoking cessation clinic. It can therefore benefit a larger population at low cost.

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2012-07
• Study First Submitted: 2012-07-26
• Study First Submitted QC: 2012-07-26
• Study First Posted: 2012-07-30
• Primary Completion: 2015-04
• Study Completion: 2015-06
• Status Verified: 2017-10
• Last Update Submitted: 2017-10-26
• Last Update Posted: 2017-10-30

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 156

Inclusion Criteria

• aged 18 years and older
• currently smoking at least one cigarette per day in the past 30 days
• Hong Kong residents
• able to communicate in Cantonese
• currently residing in Hong Kong and expecting to continue to do so for the next 6 months
• have access to a telephone

Exclusion Criteria

• currently undergoing another smoking cessation or similar program

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Control	Control	Participants are given printed self-help leaflet on smoking cessation developed by the Department of Health, Hong Kong.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy	Acceptance and Commitment Therapy	All participants are given a self-help leaflet on smoking cessation. Participants are also given an initial session of face-to-face ACT at a primary health service clinic. In addition, two more subsequent ACT sessions are provided by telephone at one week and one month after the initial intervention.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
7-day point prevalence by self report	at 6 months	self-reports on stopped smoking for a consecutive 7 days proceeding to the assessment at 6 months post-intervention

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
validated self-report not smoking measured	at 6 months after the baseline	Obtaining CO measurement and testing urinary cotinine for those participants who report quitting smoking

Trial Locations

Locations (3)

Heavenly Joy Family Clinic; 🇭🇰 Tin Shui Wai, New Territories, Hong Kong

United Christian Nethersole Community Health Service, Kwong Fuk Community Health Centre; 🇭🇰 Tai Po, New Territories, Hong Kong

School of Nursing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University; 🇭🇰 Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong