A Web Site and Print Materials Intervention for Smoking Intervention for Childhood and Young Adult Cancer Survivors

NCT00588107 | Completed

• 2 other identifiers: 05-032R01CA106914
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 374
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

The purpose of this study was to compare two different ways of helping people who have had childhood cancer, leukemia, tumors or similar illnesses learn health information and information about trying to quit smoking. All participants received materials in the mail about their health, survivorship, and smoking. Some participants were also invited to use a website. The goal of the study was to see which is a better way to get information about health issues, survivorship, and smoking.

Conditions

Cancer

Keywords

Cancer; Smoker; Web based intervention; Partnership for Health; Cancer Survivors

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• The primary outcome is smoking cessation

  15 months post BL

Secondary Outcomes (1)

• Secondary outcome: cost-effectiveness, intervention dose delivered, reach, impact, quit attempts, motivation to quit, and use of pharmacotherapy

  15 months post BL

Study Arms (2)

Web site access

EXPERIMENTAL

Web intervention- and access to pharmacotherapy

Other: Web Intervention

print materials

ACTIVE COMPARATOR

Receives tailored print materials and access to pharmacotherapy (Materials condition)

Behavioral: print materials

Interventions

Web Intervention OTHER

Receives pharmacotherapy and access to an interactive Web site (Web condition). The Web site will offer tailored intervention messages and strategies in an interactive format that is much less labor-intensive and costly than the prior PFH peer telephone counseling intervention.

Web site access

print materials BEHAVIORAL

tailored print materials designed to aid in smoking reduction and cessation

print materials

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 18 Years - 55 Years
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: No
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64)

You may qualify if:

• Have been diagnosed with cancer before age 35
• Currently be ≥ 18 years of age and ≤ 55 years of age
• or more years out of cancer treatment
• Be mentally capable of providing informed consent
• Be reachable by telephone for screening and survey completion
• Be a current smoker (defined as having taken one puff of a cigarette in the last 30 days)
• Fluent in English

You may not qualify if:

• Currently undergoing active treatment for cancer

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Dana-Farber Cancer Institute: lead
• National Cancer Institute (NCI): collaborator
• St. Jude Children's Research Hospital: collaborator
• Princess Margaret Hospital, Canada: collaborator
• The Hospital for Sick Children: collaborator
• University of Massachusetts, Amherst: collaborator

Study Sites (1)

DFCI

Boston, Massachusetts, 02215, United States

Location

Related Publications (7)

• de Moor JS, Puleo E, Ford JS, Greenberg M, Hodgson DC, Tyc VL, Ostroff J, Diller LR, Levy AG, Sprunck-Harrild K, Emmons KM. Disseminating a smoking cessation intervention to childhood and young adult cancer survivors: baseline characteristics and study design of the partnership for health-2 study. BMC Cancer. 2011 May 11;11:165. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-11-165.

  PMID: 21569345 BACKGROUND

• Nagler RH, Puleo E, Sprunck-Harrild K, Emmons KM. Internet use among childhood and young adult cancer survivors who smoke: implications for cessation interventions. Cancer Causes Control. 2012 Apr;23(4):647-52. doi: 10.1007/s10552-012-9926-9. Epub 2012 Feb 28.

  PMID: 22370697 BACKGROUND

• Tyc VL, Puleo E, Emmons K, de Moor JS, Ford JS. Smoking Restrictions Among Households of Childhood and Young Adult Cancer Survivors: Implications for Tobacco Control Efforts. J Adolesc Young Adult Oncol. 2013 Mar;2(1):17-24. doi: 10.1089/jayao.2012.0019.

  PMID: 23610739 BACKGROUND

• Nagler RH, Puleo E, Sprunck-Harrild K, Viswanath K, Emmons KM. Health media use among childhood and young adult cancer survivors who smoke. Support Care Cancer. 2014 Sep;22(9):2497-507. doi: 10.1007/s00520-014-2236-x. Epub 2014 Apr 13.

  PMID: 24728617 BACKGROUND

• Ford JS, Puleo E, Sprunck-Harrild K, deMoor J, Emmons KM. Perceptions of risk among childhood and young adult cancer survivors who smoke. Support Care Cancer. 2014 Aug;22(8):2207-17. doi: 10.1007/s00520-014-2165-8.

  PMID: 24659242 BACKGROUND

• Emmons KM, Sprunck-Harrild K, Puleo E, de Moor J. Provider advice about smoking cessation and pharmacotherapy among cancer survivors who smoke: practice guidelines are not translating. Transl Behav Med. 2013 Jun;3(2):211-7. doi: 10.1007/s13142-013-0202-7.

  PMID: 23894256 RESULT

• Emmons KM, Puleo E, Sprunck-Harrild K, Ford J, Ostroff JS, Hodgson D, Greenberg M, Diller L, de Moor J, Tyc V. Partnership for health-2, a web-based versus print smoking cessation intervention for childhood and young adult cancer survivors: randomized comparative effectiveness study. J Med Internet Res. 2013 Nov 5;15(11):e218. doi: 10.2196/jmir.2533.

  PMID: 24195867 RESULT

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Neoplasms

Study Officials

• Karen M Emmons, PhD

  Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Principal Investigator

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: December 24, 2007
• First Posted: January 8, 2008
• Study Start: September 1, 2005
• Primary Completion: October 1, 2010
• Study Completion: December 1, 2013
• Last Updated: December 31, 2014

Record last verified: 2014-12

Locations

US (1)