Disclosure of Smoking in Adolescents With Asthma
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 入组人数
- 30
- 试验地点
- 2
- 主要终点
- Ascertaining smoking status in adolescents with asthma.
研究概览
简要总结
This is an exploratory randomised matched cohort pilot study. It is hypothesised that adolescents (aged 13-16 years) with asthma attending a secondary care outpatient asthma clinic, will disclose their smoking status to a doctor or nurse, if questioned alone without a parent present and if advised that they will have biological validation of their smoking status using a carbon monoxide monitor. It is a study of 30 subjects, who will be recruited over a period of 6 months.
详细描述
Background:
There are currently no recommendations for how to obtain accurate information on tobacco use from teenagers aged 13-16 years, who have asthma and are attending a secondary care outpatient clinic. The approach adopted in this study, using a simple questionnaire and Carbon Monoxide monitor to verify smoking status, could potentially allow health care professionals to identify at risk adolescents before they become regular smokers. It is proposed that adolescents will disclose more accurate information about their smoking status if questioned alone without a parent present and if advised that they will have biological validation of their smoking status, using a carbon monoxide monitor.
The objectives of the study are:
- Use a smoking questionnaire, which will be designed with patient and parent feedback and contribution, to measure smoking status in adolescents, attending a secondary care outpatient clinic.
- To assess the appropriateness and acceptability of Carbon Monoxide(CO) monitoring to correlate smoking status in adolescents attending a paediatric outpatient clinic.
Design and Methodology:
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Prevention
- 盲法
- None
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 13 Years 至 16 Years（Child）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 否
入选标准
- •Participants will be 13-16 years of age at the time of the study.
- •Participants will be regular patients of the asthma clinic and will have a diagnosis of asthma
- •All patients will have a consultant verification of their asthma diagnosis
- •Patients with multisystem atopy will be included in the study
- •Only patients accompanied by parents and with parental consent will be enrolled to the study.
排除标准
- •Patients <13 years
- •Patients attending clinic without a parent.
- •Patients with special educational needs or communication difficulties
- •Patients who don't speak English as a first language, if an interpreter is not
结局指标
主要结局
Ascertaining smoking status in adolescents with asthma.
时间窗: 6 months
To ascertain if adolescents with asthma are more likely to be truthful about smoking status if questioned alone without their parents and with knowledge that this will be verified by carbon monoxide monitoring. This may provide scope for a personal intervention approach to facilitate discussion about smoking cessation intervention strategies and also may be able to be extrapolated to all paediatric outpatient units and GP surgeries.
次要结局
- Evidence base for protocol/guidance(1 year)