Promoting Women's Health: A Gender Specific Smoking Cessation Program for Female Smokers in Hong Kong
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 招募中
- 入组人数
- 480
- 试验地点
- 1
- 主要终点
- 7-days point prevalence smoking abstinence at 6-month
研究概览
简要总结
This project aims to publicize quitting among female smokers, and encourage and support those who want to quit by providing face-to-face and/or telephone counseling. The objectives are to:
- Build up a Women Against Tobacco Taskforce (WATT) with woman volunteers from various organizations to promote quitting in female smokers, and to arouse public awareness of the effects of smoking on sexual, reproductive and child health, and other diseases among women.
- Conduct a survey among the women volunteers and staff of the women's organization to ascertain their learning needs, knowledge, attitudes, and practice of tobacco control and smoking cessation, and to identify interested participants to join the smoking cessation training program.
- Design and deliver a smoking cessation counseling training program (based on the learning needs identified), to equip women volunteers with the knowledge and skills in smoking cessation.
- Develop and evaluate a gender-specific smoking cessation program to help female smokers to reduce and quit smoking.
- Promote women's health and quality of life, and reduce the life-long morbidity and mortality of female smokers in the long term.
- Examine the long term (3-year) impact of a gender-specific smoking cessation program on the smoking behaviors of female smokers.
- Examine another long-term (6-year) impact of a gender-specific smoking cessation program on the smoking behaviors of female smokers.
- Ascertain the contributing factors in the rate of quitting, retention and relapse.
- Investigate Hong Kong women smokers awareness and attitude to women quitline.
详细描述
Phase I: Build up a network and need assessment
- We will invite collaboration with the Hong Kong Women Development Association (18 organizational members and over 30,000 individual members), the Hong Kong Federation of Women (45 organizational members), Women's Club of Family Planning Association (7 Women's Club), Hone Kong Young Women's Christian Association (around 260,000 members) and other woman organizations to build up a network by setting up a Women Against Tobacco Taskforce (WATT) jointly with representatives from women organizations and led by the Department of Nursing Studies of The University of Hong Kong. This proposed Task Force will focus on promoting smoking cessation among female smokers and arousing the public's awareness of health risks specific to women from smoking.
- Need assessment survey and focus group interview of the women volunteers and staff: all volunteers and staff will be invited to participate in a need assessment survey and focus group interview. The perceived needs identified will be used to design a tailor-made smoking cessation counselor training curriculum for the participants, and they will be asked to indicate their interest and commitment to undertake such training (free of charge), and to help women quit smoking.
Phase II:
Design and deliver training curriculum: Based on the needs assessment data, we will design and deliver a tailor-made smoking cessation counseling training program for the woman volunteers and staff. A maximum capacity of 200 participants can be trained. At the end of the program, participants should be capable of delivering smoking cessation advice for women, and a referral system can be set up so that women that required more intensive counseling can be referred to us if necessary. The outcome of the training will be evaluated through a survey before and immediate after, and 6 months post training, which include: knowledge, attitudes, and practice of smoking cessation.
We aim to train women smoking cessation counselors as they can better understand the needs and feelings of female smokers. Female addiction to cigarette smoking may be reinforced more by the sensory and social context of smoking2, and therefore it is important to reduce the gap between the female smoker and the counselor. Upon completion of the program, a certificate of attendance will be awarded to the participants and their organizations for their contribution.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Na
- 干预模型
- Single Group
- 主要目的
- Health Services Research
- 盲法
- None
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 15 Years 至 —（Child, Adult, Older Adult）
- 性别
- Female
- 接受健康志愿者
- 否
入选标准
- •Hong Kong female resident aged 18 or above
- •Able to communicate in Chinese (Cantonese)
- •Current Smokers
排除标准
- •Have difficulty to communicate via telephone
- •Having queries irrelevant to tobacco control
研究组 & 干预措施
Brief counseling and NRT
The project will provide intensive counseling at the Centre for Health Promotion (CHP) of HKU Department of Nursing Studies, female smokers (including all types of tobacco products such as shisha, electronic cigarettes and heat-not-burn (HNB) which are available in the market) who require more intensive counseling or advice on nicotine replacement therapy, upon referral from the women's organizations and trained women counselors. The smokers will receive face-to-face (or telephone) counseling and a 1 week supply of Nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) (4 mg nicotine gum or 10 mg/ 15 mg nicotine patch) from the nurse counselor, and follow up calls at 1 week, 1-, 3-, 6-, 36- and 72-month post-intervention.
干预措施: nicotine gum or nicotine patch (Drug)
结局指标
主要结局
7-days point prevalence smoking abstinence at 6-month
时间窗: 6-month follow-up
the reduced cigarette consumption; progression to a higher stage of readiness to change; quit attempts, and increased self-efficacy to quitting smoking. In the long term, the quit rate (not smoke for at least 7 days during the time of follow up); smoking reduction, progression of stage of readiness, at 6 months; and change in quality of life
次要结局
- Bio-chemical validated smoking abstinence at 6-,36-,72-month(6-,36-,72-month follow-up)
研究者
Dr. LI William Ho Cheung
Associate Professor
The University of Hong Kong