Survey of Smokers Treated in the Emergency Department (ED) on Ownership and Usage of Cell Phones
Completed
- Conditions
- Smoking
- Interventions
- Other: Cell Phone Survey
- Registration Number
- NCT01820533
- Lead Sponsor
- Yale University
- Brief Summary
To study ownership and use of cell phones in low-income smokers. This may help us better understand the impact of cell phone ownership plans on low income smokers' access to quitlines. Use of quitlines may be impeded by limited access to landline phones and limited airtime minutes on cell phones.
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- COMPLETED
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 775
Inclusion Criteria
- Age 18 or over
- speak and understand English
- willing and able to give informed consent
- have smoked more than 100 cigarettes lifetime
- are currently a daily or some day smoker
Exclusion Criteria
- too ill or unable to consent
- not interested in participation
- actively psychotic or mentally ill and unable to give consent
- in police custody
- resides in an extended care facility.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- OBSERVATIONAL
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Arm && Interventions
Group Intervention Description smokers Cell Phone Survey -
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method proportion of participants with limited wireless minutes baseline The proportion of participants with limited wireless minutes each month, stratified by insurance.
proportion of participants with unlimited wireless minutes baseline The proportion of participants with unlimited wireless minutes each month, stratified by insurance status.
Proportion of participants with lifeline wireless phones baseline The proportion of participants who have lifeline wireless phones (AKA "Medicaid phones").
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method
Trial Locations
- Locations (1)
Yale University
🇺🇸New Haven, Connecticut, United States