Secondhand Smoke Exposure Reduction Study

NCT01145794 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: China-SHARE
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 348
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

The high prevalence of smoking in adults in many developing countries (e.g. in China, 61% among men and 7% among women) results in many children being exposed to secondhand smoke (SHS). Although in 2001 the American Academy of Pediatrics recommended the promotion of proper smoking hygiene, (i.e. smoking away from the immediate environment of infants and children), similar recommendations in many developing countries are either scarce or non-existent. We hypothesize that implementation of a package of smoking hygiene intervention measures delivered by community health workers (CHWs) will reduce Chinese children's exposure to SHS and improve their respiratory health.

Conditions

Secondhand Smoking

Keywords

SHS

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• improvement of smoking hygiene practices within the household as reported by the subjects

  The main outcome measures are: improvement of smoking hygiene practices within the household as reported by the subjects (i.e. reduction in the number of cigarettes smoked indoors at home while a child was present during the previous week) and reduction in children's cotinine concentrations in urine at 6- month follow up.

  at 6 months

Interventions

smoking hygiene intervention BEHAVIORAL

The intervention, SHI, will address SHS and quitting. It will include behavioral counseling to address health hazards of SHS for children, brief advice to quit and to adopt a no smoking policy around children and self-help materials (related to second hand smoking).

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 18 Years - 65 Years
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: No
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

• household member has smoked one or more cigarettes daily for the past 30 days as self reported;
• household smoker smokes a total of at least 10 cigarettes per week at home in the presence of the child, as self reported;
• smoker household member and the child are living together in the same household and will live together during the entire period of the study;
• residents of the study community;
• able to communicate in Mandarin Chinese or local Shanghai dialect;
• has signed an informed consent form or given verbal consent (for those who cannot read and write).

You may not qualify if:

• reported residential coal burning and confirmed by the interviewer;
• households with breast-feeding child;
• household members do not smoke at home;
• smoker member does not live in the same household as the under 5 child;
• non-local community resident; and
• not able to communicate in Mandarin Chinese or Shanghai dialect.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Boston University: lead
• Flight Attendant Medical Research Institute: collaborator

Study Sites (1)

Fu Hua

Shanghai, China

Location

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: SINGLE
• Who Masked: OUTCOMES ASSESSOR
• Purpose: PREVENTION
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: June 15, 2010
• First Posted: June 17, 2010
• Study Start: October 1, 2008
• Primary Completion: May 1, 2011
• Study Completion: June 1, 2011
• Last Updated: June 27, 2011

Record last verified: 2011-06

Locations

CN (1)