Integrating Smoking Cessation Into Routine Primary Care Practice

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Smoking Cessation
• Interventions: Behavioral: Smoking cessation training, support, and telephone follow-up; Behavioral: smoking cessation intervention

• Registration Number: NCT00799279
• Lead Sponsor: University of Waterloo

Brief Summary

The aim of this study is to determine if providing smokers identified in family doctors offices with follow-up counselling enhances their success with quitting and the number of health professionals helping patients with quitting. Six to eight family medicine clinics will be involved in the study. We will compare the frequency of addressing smoking with patients and the proportion of smokers who are successful with quitting 16-weeks following the clinic appointment between practices. It is hypothesized that the addition of follow-up counseling to a multi-component smoking cessation intervention will improve smoking outcomes.

Detailed Description

A family doctor's advice to quit has been shown to increase a smoker's motivation to quit. Despite the evidence supporting the importance of smoking cessation, there is a well-documented practice gap in the rates at which smoking cessation is being addressed by practitioners. The primary objectives of this research study are to determine whether adjunct telephone-based smoking cessation follow-up counselling when delivered as part of a multi-component intervention:

1. Increases the rate at which evidence-based smoking cessation interventions are delivered to smokers identified in family doctors offices, compared to providing only practice supports.

2. Increases smoking abstinence as measured three months after the estimated target quit date (i.e.16 weeks) compared to providing only practice supports.

3. Is more cost-effective (cost/quit) than providing only practice supports to family doctors offices.

A two-arm before-after matched-pair cluster randomized trial, will test the effectiveness of two strategies for integrating smoking cessation treatments into primary care practice routines and enhancing cessation. Six to eight family doctors offices will be randomized to either a practice support (PS) group, or a follow-up counseling (FC) group. From each of the intervention practices a cross-sectional sample of 50 eligible smokers will be recruited pre- and post-intervention to assess 5A's delivery and smoking abstinence.

Study Timeline

• Study First Submitted: 2008-11-17
• Study First Submitted QC: 2008-11-26
• Study First Posted: 2008-11-27
• Study Start: 2009-01
• Primary Completion: 2010-04
• Study Completion: 2010-09
• Status Verified: 2010-10
• Last Update Submitted: 2010-10-05
• Last Update Posted: 2010-10-06

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 835

Inclusion Criteria

• Practices will be eligible for participation in the present study if they meet the following criteria:

  1. Practice is a family health team (FHT), family health group (FHG); or family health network (FHN);
  2. All physicians within the practice are willing to participate in the study;
  3. Practice will see an average of 50 patients per day and 10% of patients are smokers;
  4. Practice is willing to provide consent to contact patients in waiting rooms and survey patients during office hours and by telephone.

• Patients will be eligible to participate in the study if they meet the following criteria:

  1. Patient is seen in clinic for annual exam or non-urgent visit;
  2. Patient is a current smoker (>1 cigarette per day on most days of the week);
  3. Patient is 18 years of age or older;
  4. Patient is able to read and understand English or French;
  5. Patient has a home or mobile telephone which can be used to receive follow-up telephone counselling calls

Exclusion Criteria

• Patients who do not have the mental capacity to provide informed consent and complete study protocols will be excluded.

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Follow-up Counseling Arm	Smoking cessation training, support, and telephone follow-up	smoking cessation training for providers,practice tools for providers, patient quit plan, and follow-up telephone counselling for smokers
Practice Support Arm	smoking cessation intervention	smoking cessation training for providers,practice tools for providers, patient quit plan for smokers.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
smoking abstinence	16-weeks	Self-report and biochemically validated point prevelence smoking abstinence

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
cost-effectiveness	16-weeks
Rate of provider delivery of evidence-based smoking treatments	exit survey on day of clinic visits	Rates of providers, asking, advising, assessing, assisting, and arranging were assessed