Studying tobacco use and quitting behaviour due to the coronavirus lockdown in India.
- Registration Number
- CTRI/2020/06/025850
- Lead Sponsor
- Dr Monika Arora
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Completed
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 801
The study will include consenting adults (20 years and above), both males and females, who consume tobacco in any form (smoked, smokeless or both) or who have quit tobacco in the past 3 months (around COVID-19 onset). The participants will be recruited from a pre-existing cohort of the CARRS study (â??Centre for cArdiometabolic Risk Reduction in South Asia â?? CARRSâ??) which is a model surveillance system for cardio-metabolic diseases led by the Centre for Chronic Disease Control. The CARRS cohort participants are community-based in Delhi and Chennai and recruited from households randomly selected using multi-stage cluster random sampling.
- Not consuming any tobacco or quit more than 3 months ago.
- Not knowing one of the three languages: English or Hindi or Tamil.
- Hospitalized or being critically ill.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Observational
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method