Financial Intervention for Smoking Cessation Among Low-Income Smokers
Not Applicable
Recruiting
- Conditions
- Tobacco Addiction/Smoking CessationPublic Health - EpidemiologyPublic Health - Other public health
- Registration Number
- ACTRN12612000725864
- Lead Sponsor
- Professor Richard Mattick
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Recruiting
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 1046
Inclusion Criteria
Current daily smokers (at least 10 cigarettes/day); ability to read and understand English; currently in receipt of government benefits; motivated to quit smoking; agree to receive help to quit; willing to make an attempt to quit; willing to consent to and complete research tasks, not currently taking smoking medication (e.g. Champix)
Exclusion Criteria
Currently enrolled in a smoking cessation trial; unable to read/understand English language study materials; no home or mobile telephone; not willing to make an attempt to quit smoking; currently taking smoking medication (e.g. Champix)
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Self-reported sustained abstinence from smoking, reported as having quit at each follow-up with no reported smoking at all in the last week. This will be assessed via telephone-based interviews with researchers.[2-months post-baseline and 6-months post-quit date]
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Change in self-reported financial stress measured using the Index of Financial Stress (Siahpush & Carlin, 2003)[Baseline, 2-months post-baseline and 6-months post-quit date];Change in Quality of Adjusted Life Years (QALYs) as measured by the EQ-5D[Baseline, 2-months post-baseline and 6-months post-quit date];Changes in psychological stress using the Depression Anxiety Stress Scale - 21 (DASS).[Baseline, 2-months post-baseline and 6-months post-quit date]