Cognitive Behavioral Interventions for Motivation, Psychological Distress and Quality of Life Among Individuals With Smoking Cessation: A Randomized Control Trial
Overview
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Intervention
- Not specified
- Conditions
- Cognitive Behavior Intervention for Psychological Distress, Motivation and Quality of Life Among Individual With Smoking Cessation
- Sponsor
- Government College University Faisalabad
- Enrollment
- 60
- Locations
- 1
- Primary Endpoint
- Cigarette Dependency scale (CDS)
- Status
- Active, not recruiting
- Last Updated
- 2 years ago
Overview
Brief Summary
The main purpose of this research is to find out how brief cognitive behavior intervention influences the motivation level, psychological distress, and quality of life among people with smoking cessation. Another objective of this research is to examine the effectiveness of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) among smoking people, another objective of this study is to investigate how Cognitive behavioral therapy helps to enhance the motivation level and quality of life and minimize psychological distress among people with smoking cessation
Detailed Description
Participants: This was basically pre and post study, initially 60 sixty research participants were recruited for pre-assessment, while 4 participants left due to some reasons (2 persons went out of the city for a job, 1 person met a severe road accident, and 1 person simply refused to participate in this study furthermore. Finally, 55 research participants were recruited for post-assessment. These research participants belong to different residential areas (rural/urban) have varied family systems (nuclear/joint) have different birth order, education, socioeconomic status, education, occupation, marital status, and distant smoking duration. The data were analyzed with the help of SPSS-23 (Statistical Package for Social Sciences - 23) descriptive statistics, correlation analysis, and repeated measure ANOVA were used to understand the association and differences among pre and post-assessment of smoking personals.
Investigators
Qasir Abbas
Dr. Qaisir Abbas Assisstant Professor Clinical Psychology
Government College University Faisalabad
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria
- •If we talk about inclusion criteria, the individuals who were ready to change their lives were part of this study, furthermore, persons above 18 years and below 60 years old were recruited for this study, minimum duration for smoking personnel was not less than 6 months and not more than 5 years were part of this study. The individuals who have signed a written informed consent form were part of this study. Moreover, only males who were easily comprehended and understood the instructions of the researcher were recruited in this study. On the other hand, if we talk about the exclusion criteria of the study
Exclusion Criteria
- •the individuals who were reluctant to participate, or had any kind of psychophysiological illness prior to the study were excluded from this research. Further, the people below 18 and above 60 years were excluded. Furthermore, the research participants who had any kind of trauma during this study were excluded and those who refused to become further part of this study were excluded from this research study.
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Cigarette Dependency scale (CDS)
Time Frame: 6 months
The CDS (Cigarette Dependency scale) was developed by Jean-Francois Etter, PhD in 2003. (CDS; Etter et al.,2023). This scale has twelve items which gauge the addiction level, smoking compulsion, tolerability and withdrawal tendency of a person.
Alcohol, Smoking and Substance Involvement Screening Test (ASSIST)
Time Frame: 6 months
The ASSIST (Alcohol, Smoking and Substance Involvement Screening Test) was developed under the supervision of WHO (World Health Organization) by a group of researchers, clinicians, public health providers in 2010 (WHO, 2010). It mainly screens out the individual tendency to use Alcohol, Tabaco and other substances. This test mainly has seven items, which shows good test-retest reliability ranging from 0.6 to 0.8 (Humeniuk, 2008).
Depression Anxiety Stress Scale (DASS)
Time Frame: 6 months
The (DASS) Depression Anxiety Stress Scale was developed in the University of New South Wales Australia to assess the level of depression, anxiety and stress among students. The DASS-21 was developed by Lovibond and Lovibond in 1995 (Minh Thi Hong Le, 2017). In this study the Urdu translated version of DASS was used which were translated by Naeem and Kamal in 2018 (Naeem and Kamal, 2018). It is very reliable and valid tool to assess negative emotional state of depression, stress and anxiety. The overall reliability of DASS is 0.74.
Motivation and Attitude towards changing Health (MATCH)
Time Frame: 6 months
The MATCH (Motivation and Attitude towards changing Health) was developed by Hessler, Fisher, Polonsky, Browyer and Potter in 2018 (Hessler DM, Fisher L, Polonsky WH, Browyer V \& Potter M., 2018). It's basically consist 9 items with 5 points Likert's scale ranging from strongly disagree to strongly agree).