Comparing Population Cessation Services

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Cancer
• Interventions: Behavioral: TTM Tailored; Behavioral: Motivational Enhancement Therapy; Behavioral: Integrated Treatment

• Registration Number: NCT01566994
• Lead Sponsor: University of Rhode Island

Brief Summary

If the treatment combining Motivation Enhancement, Reduction Counseling, Nicotine Replacement Therapy and Transtheoretical tailored interventions produces an increasing treatment trajectory, it will produce unprecedented impacts with unmotivated smokers specifically and population cessation generally. These recruitment and intervention strategies require limited resources from health care providers and could be readily disseminable to other health care systems for application with populations of smokers, especially unmotivated smokers who have been understudied and underserved.

Detailed Description

This proposal addresses major gaps in research for nicotine addiction treatments for entire populations of smokers and for the 80% who are not motivated to quit. Nicotine addiction is just like other drug addictions in terms of breaking the addiction cycle. Researchers and providers differ on whether treatment emphasis should be on clinician-based counseling, biologically-based medications, computer-based tailored communications or a combination of these. There is a lack of comparative research on population treatments to compare effectiveness, cost-effectiveness and enhancement of quality of life. Such comparative research would provide health care systems and providers with evidence on how to best serve entire populations of smokers, especially unmotivated smokers who are seriously underserved. This research will compare the four most highly recommended treatments: 1. Motivation Enhancement Therapy (MET) plus NRT; 2.Tailored communications based on the Transtheoretical Model (TTM), and 3. The combination of these treatments.

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2010-03
• Study First Submitted: 2012-01-31
• Study First Submitted QC: 2012-03-27
• Study First Posted: 2012-03-30
• Primary Completion: 2013-05
• Study Completion: 2013-05
• Status Verified: 2013-09
• Last Update Submitted: 2013-09-16
• Last Update Posted: 2013-09-17

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 2500

Inclusion Criteria

• smoker

Exclusion Criteria

• pregnancy

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: FACTORIAL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
TTM Tailored	TTM Tailored	-
Motivational Enhancement Therapy	Motivational Enhancement Therapy	-
Integrated Treatment	Integrated Treatment	-

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Smoking cessation (quit) rate	24 months	Self-report point prevalence abstinence

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

University of Rhode Island; 🇺🇸 Kingston, Rhode Island, United States