Tobacco Pilot Study for Low Income Smokers

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Tobacco Use Disorder
• Interventions: Behavioral: Tablet-guided tobacco intervention

• Registration Number: NCT03017092
• Lead Sponsor: University of Wisconsin, Madison

Brief Summary

Pilot study to test feasibility of delivering a motivational smoking cessation intervention to low income smokers via a computer tablet.

Detailed Description

Twenty Salvation Army clients will be recruited to pilot test a motivational smoking cessation counseling intervention that is delivered via a tablet computer. Study participants will be given brief instructions on how to use the tablet. They will then complete a brief survey on the tablet. This will be followed by the researcher using the tablet to provide the motivational intervention. Finally, study participants will be interviewed to establish this perceptions of the intervention.

Study Timeline

• Study First Submitted: 2017-01-03
• Study First Submitted QC: 2017-01-09
• Study First Posted: 2017-01-11
• Study Start: 2017-01-18
• Primary Completion: 2017-01-27
• Study Completion: 2017-01-27
• Status Verified: 2017-05
• Last Update Submitted: 2019-12-23
• Last Update Posted: 2019-12-26

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 20

Inclusion Criteria

• current smoker (≥ 10 cigarettes/week for the past six months who are not currently trying to quit)
• age ≥ 18 years
• English speaking/writing

Exclusion Criteria

• not receiving services for the Salvation Army

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: SINGLE_GROUP

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
tablet-guided	Tablet-guided tobacco intervention	Study participants will be administered a brief tobacco intervention by a Salvation Army staff person who is guided by a tablet computer

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Ease of use of tablet-guided tobacco intervention assessed by interview and summarized across study participants	Immediately after exposure to intervention	At the end of the intervention, each study participant will be interviewed regarding how easy the tablet computer was to use. This qualitative information will by summarized across all study participants.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

University of Wisconsin Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention, School of Medicine and Public Health; 🇺🇸 Madison, Wisconsin, United States