Boosting Chinese Healthcare Service Providers' Utilization of Behavioral and Pharmacotherapy Interventions for Cigarette Smoking Cessation by 'WeChat WeQuit' Program
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 入组人数
- 2,200
- 试验地点
- 1
- 主要终点
- The effectiveness of 'WeChat WeQuit' training program.
研究概览
简要总结
In this single-blind, randomized trial, undertaken in China with 8-week interventions and follow-up to 52 weeks, about 2,200 providers will be randomly allocated to the intervention or control group.
详细描述
Previous studies have been showed that providing behavioral and pharmacotherapy interventions for cigarette smoking patients was effective but rare among Chinese healthcare service providers. In order to minimize the huge gap between the shortage and demand for smoking cessation training program and smoking cessation service, this 'WeChat WeQuit' smoking cessation training program has been designed to assess whether it will increase Chinese healthcare service providers' utilization of behavioral and pharmacotherapy interventions for cigarette smoking cessation or not.
In this single-blind, randomized trial, about 2200 HSPs will be randomly selected (by randomizeR, https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=randomizeR) to 8-week intervention (behavioral and pharmacotherapy interventions for cigarette smoking patients to help them quit smoking) group or control group that only communicates without any standard smoking cessation practices related messages, and follow-up to 52 weeks. The trial will be carried out in into two phases, the first phase is the pilot study (n=200, 8-week intervention and follow-up to 16 weeks) and the second is the main study (n=2000, 8-week intervention and follow-up to 52 weeks). It is hypothesized that 'WeChat WeQuit' training program will improve Chinese HSPs' utilization of behavioral and pharmacotherapy interventions for cigarette smoking cessation and increase quit rate for smoking patients.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Health Services Research
- 盲法
- Single (Investigator)
入排标准
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •Chinese-speaking healthcare service providers
- •Know how to use WeChat
- •Use WeChat on a daily basis
- •Willing to provide informed consent to participate in the study -
排除标准
- •Non-Chinese speakers
- •Not healthcare service providers
- •Do not use WeChat
- •Unwilling to participate in the study -
研究组 & 干预措施
With smoking cessation training
Participants who allocate to the intervention group will receive regular smoking cessation training program messages by professional team. One to six messages will be sent per day for 8 weeks. Hand copy of behavioral and pharmacotherapy interventions manual will send to each HSP by mail after randomization. One to three messages will be sent per week until the end of the 1-year follow-up. They will also be encouraged to communicate the experience of using behavioral and pharmacotherapy interventions in their group.
干预措施: 'WeChat WeQuit' smoking cessation training program (Behavioral)
Without smoking cessation training
Control group participants will not receive any smoking cessation messages by professional team. They will receive messages of thanking them for being in the study and reminding them of the time until 52-week follow-up. One to six messages will be sent per week for 8 weeks. They will be encouraged to communicate the experience of helping patients quit smoking in their group.
结局指标
主要结局
The effectiveness of 'WeChat WeQuit' training program.
时间窗: 52 weeks
The utilization rate (i.e. rate=smokers treated divided by smokers seen) of behavioral and pharmacotherapy interventions by HSP for smoking patients from 8 to 52-week.
次要结局
- Prevalence of smoking abstinence(24 weeks)
研究者
Yanhui Liao
Attending Psychiatrist
Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital