MassCONECT (Massachusetts Community Networks to Eliminate Cancer Disparities Through Education) 4 Kids: Promoting Smoke-free Homes

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Tobacco Smoking Behavior

• Registration Number: NCT01537874
• Lead Sponsor: Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH)

Brief Summary

This study evaluates the effectiveness of a motivational interviewing intervention with families with young children ages 0-5 where smoking is happening in the home to adopt a smoke-free home plan and reduce child's second-hand smoke exposure.

Detailed Description

Involuntary secondhand smoke (SHS) exposure in homes is an entirely preventable public health threat that disproportionately burdens young children in communities of low socioeconomic position. Breathe Free For Kids is a community-based participatory research (CBPR) initiative to evaluate the effectiveness of Ml compared with usual best practices (UBP) by having parents voluntarily adopt smoke-free home policies to protect children from SHS. The Motivational Interviewing intervention protocol was developed in conjunction with community partners, integrated into a health department-sponsored home visiting program for high-risk children and other community-based agencies serving children, and delivered by trained community health workers.

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2010-05
• Study First Submitted: 2012-02-17
• Study First Submitted QC: 2012-02-22
• Study First Posted: 2012-02-23
• Primary Completion: 2013-04
• Study Completion: 2013-04
• Status Verified: 2014-05
• Last Update Submitted: 2014-05-19
• Last Update Posted: 2014-05-20

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 138

Inclusion Criteria

• Tobacco smoking occurs regularly (smoke a minimum of one cigarette/cigar per day or five cigarettes/cigars per week) inside the home or in an attached patio/porch, hallway or stairwell
• Primary caregiver of child aged birth to 5 years old (inclusive) enrolled in Massachusetts Early Intervention program, Healthy Families program or the general population in Boston, Lawrence and Worcester areas.
• Ability of a custodial parent aged 17 or older/legally authorized representative or primary caregiver of child enrolled in participating programs to give permission for the index child to provide saliva sample.
• Participant has access to a telephone to schedule study contacts and participate in follow-up calls

Exclusion Criteria

• Not able to understand English or Spanish at a 8th grade level or above
• In poor physical or psychological health (self-reported and observed by Community Health Worker), for whom participating in this intervention study might compromise the child's or participant's welfare, or be impracticable
• Index child is a ward of the state

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Voluntary adoption of a home smoking ban	6 Months

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Self-reported smoking in the home	6 Months
Household nicotine concentrations	6 Months
Child salivary cotinine	6 Months

Trial Locations

Locations (3)

Boston Alliance for Community Health; 🇺🇸 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

City of Lawrence Mayor's Health Task Force; 🇺🇸 Lawrence, Massachusetts, United States

Common Pathways; 🇺🇸 Worcester, Massachusetts, United States