Impact of Smoke Free Public Places (Smoke Free Cabs) on Cab Drivers in Mumbai, India
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 入组人数
- 400
- 试验地点
- 1
- 主要终点
- Knowledge, Attitude & practice (change in the baseline KAP)
研究概览
简要总结
In addition to the passengers smoking inside the cab, the taxi drivers,are themselves addicted to smoking and/ or use of smokeless tobacco. Since tobacco is highly addictive, the cab drivers using tobacco need help in quitting. It is also necessary to raise the awareness of the cab drivers with respect to the hazards of tobacco and significance of the smoke free legislation.
It's been six years since the implementation of rules prohibiting smoking in public places and a re-look at the compliance to this regulation is necessary. The study will also help tobacco users to quit their habits. They will get screened for oral premalignant and malignant lesions.
Also, the cab drivers may pass on some effective messages regarding importance of keeping oneself away from tobacco, to the customers while commuting. In view of the above background, the current study is proposed to look at all these aspects.
The findings of the study will be certainly generating useful information with regards to lacunae in the existing system for appropriate implementation and for strengthening anti tobacco advocacy in our country.
详细描述
AIM and OBJECTIVES:
- To study the Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices (KAP) regarding tobacco and smoke free public places among cab drivers ferrying customers near Tata Memorial Hospital
- To study the impact of smoke free public places with specific reference to smoke free cabs (on various factors such as number of customers, customer practices, health status, self practices, compliance etc.)
- To understand their attitude towards smoke free cabs.
- To educate them regarding hazards of tobacco and the need for smoke free cabs.
- To invite the cab drivers using tobacco to avail the Preventive Oncology screening facilities and Tobacco cessation clinic at the Tata Memorial Hospital
- To evaluate the compliance for availing the services
- To study the post-intervention KAP regarding tobacco and smoke free public places
- To determine the rate of oral pre-cancers and tobacco cessation after one year follow-up.
Methodology:
Design: Single arm interventional study
Step 1: Around 400 cab drivers in Mumbai will be enrolled after explaining the programme and obtaining informed consent. They will be interviewed with the help of a well structured questionnaire to collect information about their Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices (KAP) regarding tobacco, their attitudes and experiences regarding smoke free public places with specific reference to smoke free cabs.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Single Group
- 主要目的
- Screening
- 盲法
- Single (Participant)
入排标准
- 性别
- Male
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •400 Cab drivers ferrying customers near Tata Memorial Hospital on a regular basis
排除标准
- •Any Cab drivers outside the category as mentioned in the proposal
研究组 & 干预措施
Tobacco users: behavioural counseling
The cab drivers using tobacco will be invited to participate in the tobacco cessation programme at the TCC and will receive three monthly follow-up for one year. Thus intervention will be in the form of behavioural therapy and pharmacotherapy (if required)
干预措施: Tobacco users (Behavioral)
Tobacco users: behavioural counseling
The cab drivers using tobacco will be invited to participate in the tobacco cessation programme at the TCC and will receive three monthly follow-up for one year. Thus intervention will be in the form of behavioural therapy and pharmacotherapy (if required)
干预措施: Pharmacotherapy (Drug)
结局指标
主要结局
Knowledge, Attitude & practice (change in the baseline KAP)
时间窗: 30 months
a) The
次要结局
- Reactions towards no tobacco messages (Reactions of the commuters and their own perceptions)(30 months)
- Attitude regarding implementation of smoke free policy (perceptions and attitude of cab drivers)(30 months)
- Oral cancer detection by oral screening(30 months)
- Quit rates (self reported quit rates)(30 months)
研究者
Gauravi Ashish Mishra
Associate Professor & Physician
Tata Memorial Hospital