A randomised control trial evaluating the effectiveness of a medical student guided tobacco cessation program for hospitalised smokers in India.
- Conditions
- Health Condition 1: null- Hospitalised patients who smoke tobacco
- Registration Number
- CTRI/2018/04/013514
- Lead Sponsor
- SEHAT India
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- ot Yet Recruiting
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 0
1. Patients age 18-70 years old, who are admitted to the medical, cardiology and /or pulmonology wards.
2. Patients must be current smokers (cigarettes and/or bidis) at the time of admission or report having smoked at all in the last 4 weeks prior to admission (to account for changes in behaviour during illness).
3. Patients living within 10 Km radius of the hospital.
1. Unwilling to participate
2. Patients who use any form of non-smoked tobacco will be excluded. If the required sample size is not met because of this exclusion criteria, smokers who concurrently chew tobacco will be included.
3. Patients who are concurrently alcohol dependent, current cannabis or psychotropic drug users as per ICD 10.
4. Patients who do not have a telephone/ unable to follow up
5. Patients unable to understand the local/common language
6. Patients with psychiatric conditions rendering them incapable of interacting with the providers
7. Medically unstable patients
8. Patients with expected hospital stay <24 hours
9. Patients with life expectancy < 12 months
10. Pregnant patients
11. Patients currently participating in a tobacco cessation program
12. Prior participation in this trial during another hospitalisation
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
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- Secondary Outcome Measures
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