Smoking Cessation for Hospital Employees With Low Education.

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Smoking Cessation
• Interventions: Behavioral: Targeted smoking cessation

• Registration Number: NCT02701530
• Lead Sponsor: Glostrup University Hospital, Copenhagen

Brief Summary

The aim of this trial is to develop a new tailored smoking cessation program for smokers with low education. Smokers are involved in design of the intervention. The effect of the intervention is then tested in a randomised controlled trial. Half of workplaces will be offered the intervention and the other half will be control group, not receiving any offer.

Detailed Description

The target group of this trial is smokers with low education working in hospitals in the Capital Region of Denmark.

The aim is to develop a new tailored smoking cessation program for and together with smokers with low education. We selected following seven positions/occupations as proxy for low socioeconomic status: cleaner, porter, kitchen staff, social and health care assistant, service assistant, technical staff and medial secretary.

In first step the investigators perform focus group interviews with the target group to identify wishes and barriers. In next step the investigators design the new tailored smoking cessation program together with smokers with low education.

Then the investigators test the effect of the smoking cessation program in a randomised controlled trial. All hospitals in the Capital Region of Denmark except one are included (the last hospital is situated on a remote island). Half of the hospitals are randomised to be intervention group and the other half is control group. Recruitment will be by written invitations, posters and primarily by peer-recruitment (smokers with low education who are ambassadors for the project at the work places). Posters and written invitations show photos of the ambassadors in the target group and their statements; why they have decided to quit smoking.

The group-based smoking cessation intervention is designed with guidance from the anchor persons. There is no moralizing or disease-focusing, few written materials and a lot of drawings and humor. The intervention will be in small groups (4-6 persons), with six sessions (á 1½-2 hours) taking place at the workplace during working time. All counsellors are ex-smokers. Stress-management is included at each session. We offer free nicotine products or varenicline by choice, for up to 12 weeks. Nicotine replacement therapy is always based on the patch and combined with inhaler or mouth spray p.n. Nicotine gum is not offered.

The investigators measure validated abstinence rates at each session and 6 months after last session.

Main end-point is smoking rates after 12 months in intervention hospitals compared with smoking rates in control hospitals.

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2013-08
• Primary Completion: 2015-08
• Study Completion: 2016-02
• Study First Submitted: 2016-02-22
• Status Verified: 2016-03
• Study First Submitted QC: 2016-03-02
• Study First Posted: 2016-03-08
• Last Update Submitted: 2016-03-14
• Last Update Posted: 2016-03-15

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 7003

Inclusion Criteria

employee with low education working in an intervention hospital in the Capital Region of Denmark.

We selected following seven positions/occupations as proxy for low socioeconomic status: cleaner, porter, kitchen staff, social and health care assistant, service assistant, technical staff and medial secretary.

Exclusion Criteria

• does not speak Danish

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Targeted smoking cessation	Targeted smoking cessation	Smoking cessation program tailored in cooperation with the target group; smokers with low education. Peer-based anti-relapse strategy. Recruitment strategy: peer-driven, written invitations and posters.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Smoking rate in hospitals randomised to intervention or control group	12 months	Self-reported point abstinence

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Smoking cessation rate in persons participating in the intervention	6 weeks after fixed quit date	Carbonmonoxide validated abstinence
Smoking cessation rate in persons participating in the group-based intervention	6 months	Self-reported point abstinence + carbonmonoxide validated abstinence

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Research Center for Prevention and Health; 🇩🇰 Glostrup, Denmark