Smoking Cessation Program Among Adolescents in Vocational Training Centers

NCT00973570 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: C07-43
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 2,000
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

Background: Most of the efforts to fight against young people's tobacco addiction have focused on smoking prevention and little on smoking cessation. A smoking cessation program, associating pharmacologic and cognitive-behavioural strategy, on a particularly vulnerable population (vocational trainees), was developed by a team of tobacco addiction specialist physicians. We developed a study to evaluate the efficacy of the program. Its main objective is to compare the efficacy of a smoking cessation program offered to all smokers in a population aged 15 to 20 years in Vocational Training Centers (VTC) with that in a control population. The objective of this paper is to present the TABADO study protocol and the results of the pilot study. Methods: The study is quasi-experimental, prospective, evaluative and comparative and takes place during the 2 years of vocational training. The final population will be composed of 2000 trainees entering a VTC (in Lorraine, France): The intervention group (1000 trainees) benefited from the TABADO program while no specific intervention took place in the "control" group (1000 trainees) other than the treatment and education services usually available. Our primary outcome will be the tobacco abstinence rate at 12 months. The pilot study is a descriptive monocentric cross-sectional study conducted among the whole group of students, completed by a longitudinal prospective study of smoker volunteers.

Conditions

Tobacco Use

Keywords

tobacco cessation; evaluation; epidémiology; adolescent; apprentices

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• The primary outcome is the rate of smoking abstinence after 12 months, measured on the basis of the statements of the whole sample, not only among volunteers.

  12 months

Secondary Outcomes (3)

• Overall prevalence of tobacco use in the institutions concerned at 12 months.

  12 months

• Students' motivation to quit smoking (motivational score) and frequency of attempts to quit within the 12 months after the intervention

  12 months

• Rate of withdrawal from the program among the volunteers after 12 months.

  12 months

Study Arms (2)

"Intervention" group

EXPERIMENTAL

The "intervention" group benefits from the TABADO program

Behavioral: TABADO program

"Control" group

NO INTERVENTION

The "control" group not benefit from any specific intervention other than the treatment and education usually available

Interventions

TABADO program BEHAVIORAL

The intervention takes place in 3 stages: (i) a general information session on tobacco consumption is delivered to all teenagers, both smokers and nonsmokers. (ii) For smokers wishing to join the program, this session is followed by individualized consultations with a team of tobacco addiction physicians. (iii) The volunteers then benefit from a small group approach, consisting of discussion sessions to share experiences, strengthen motivation, and prevent relapse. There will be 4 sessions in total, comprising individual counseling and work in groups spread over 3 months (taking into account the availability of the trainees because of their alternate-week training schedule).

"Intervention" group

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 15 Years - 20 Years
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Child (0-17), Adult (18-64)

You may qualify if:

• All students, males and females, registered in the VTC for at least a 2-year training period
• Aged from 15 to 20 years

You may not qualify if:

• Subjects with current serious psychiatric disorders or who may be susceptible to decompensation upon quitting smoking (major depression)
• Smokers who are involved in an ongoing attempt to quit, with medical monitoring.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Institut National de la Santé Et de la Recherche Médicale, France: lead
• University of Nancy: collaborator
• Central Hospital, Nancy, France: collaborator

Study Sites (1)

CHU Nancy

Nancy, Lorraine, 54000, France

Location

Related Publications (1)

• Minary L, Martini H, Wirth N, Thouvenot F, Acouetey DS, Martinet Y, Bohadana A, Zmirou-Navier D, Alla F. TABADO: "evaluation of a smoking cessation program among adolescents in vocational training centers": study protocol. BMC Public Health. 2009 Nov 13;9:411. doi: 10.1186/1471-2458-9-411.

  PMID: 19912627 BACKGROUND

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Tobacco Use; Tobacco Use Cessation

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Behavior; Health Behavior

Study Officials

• François ALLA, MD/ PhD

  Institut National de la Santé Et de la Recherche Médicale, France

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: NON RANDOMIZED
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: PREVENTION
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER GOV
• Responsible Party: SPONSOR

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: September 8, 2009
• First Posted: September 9, 2009
• Study Start: February 1, 2008
• Primary Completion: January 1, 2010
• Study Completion: January 1, 2010
• Last Updated: March 28, 2025

Record last verified: 2009-09

Locations

FR (1)