Web-delivered Provider Intervention for Tobacco Control

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Smoking Cessation
• Interventions: Behavioral: Smoking Coach; Behavioral: Decide2Quit

• Registration Number: NCT00797628
• Lead Sponsor: University of Massachusetts, Worcester

Brief Summary

This is a randomized control trial to determine the efficacy of a multi-modal intervention in improving smoking cessation processes of care and patient outcomes in community-based primary care practices. Our Overall Goal is to advance science related to the use and impact of the Internet in health services delivery, specifically smoking cessation, by targeting primary care clinical microsystems. A clinical microsystem is defined as the smallest functional healthcare unit. A clinical microsystem is not simply equivalent to a clinical team of doctors and nurses, but also the panel of patients cared for by the providers and the processes of care that are used.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study First Submitted: 2008-11-24
• Study First Submitted QC: 2008-11-24
• Study First Posted: 2008-11-25
• Study Start: 2010-03
• Status Verified: 2013-08
• Primary Completion: 2013-08
• Study Completion: 2013-08
• Last Update Submitted: 2013-08-27
• Last Update Posted: 2013-08-28

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 174

Inclusion Criteria

• Community based primary care practices who have:

  • Internet access in office
  • Sees 4 - 5 smokers per week

Exclusion Criteria

• Practices with more than five providers

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: FACTORIAL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Information Prescription	Smoking Coach	Providers will give usual care to patients who smoke and a paper prescription with the name and url of the "Smoking Coach" website. The smoking coach website is a tailored, public health intervention for smoking cessation.
QUIT-PRIMO	Decide2Quit	Providers will give usual care to patients who smoke and then refer patients to the online smoking cessation system electronically.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Physician performance on refering patients that smoke cigarettes to the web intervention	pre-intervention, 6 months, 12 months and 24 months
Of the smokers who are referred to the web intervention, the number who go to the site	preintervention, 6 months, 12 months, 24 months
Point prevalence smoking cessation	6 months

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

University of Massachusetts Medical School; 🇺🇸 Worcester, Massachusetts, United States