Web-Based Respiratory Education About Tobacco and Health Phase II

NCT01642264 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: HL083540
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 217
• Locations: 0 countries
• Sites: N/A

Brief Summary

The primary aim of this study was to develop an interactive Internet-based program (WeBREATHe: Web-Based Respiratory Education About Tobacco and Health) to train pediatric respiratory therapists and nurses to provide brief, hospital-based tobacco cessation interventions to parents of pediatric patients. The WeBREATHe program was based on a Phase I prototype which was evaluated with 50 pediatric respiratory therapists and nurses. In Phase II, the investigators redesigned and expanded the program with input from 50 educators, nurses and respiratory therapists from Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center. Then the investigators evaluated the Phase II program in a randomized trial in which 215 respiratory therapists and nurses from two large, urban children's hospitals were randomly assigned within hospital to either the Intervention (Training) Condition, or to a Delayed Treatment (Training) Control condition. Participants' demographic and tobacco use history were measured at baseline, and tobacco cessation intervention behaviors, attitudes, knowledge, perceived barriers, and self-efficacy regarding delivery of a tobacco cessation intervention were measured at baseline, 1 week post-training, and at 3 months post-training. User satisfaction measures were also collected at 1 week post-training from Intervention Condition participants. The investigators hypothesized that participants in the Intervention Condition would have increased tobacco cessation behaviors, positive attitudes and self-efficacy, and decreased perceived barriers than participants i the Delayed-Treatment Control Condition. Following evaluation, the investigators developed a final version of the interactive training program and created the administrative infrastructure for a marketable product.

Conditions

Intervention (Training) Condition; Control (Delayed Training) Condition

Keywords

Tobacco Cessation; Continuing Education; Pediatric; Respiratory Therapist; Nurse

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Performance of Ask, Advise, Assess, Assist and Arrange Behaviors

  14 items measured on a 5-point Likert scale of frequency. Ask = asking all patients' parents about tobacco use and documenting use in the patients' charts. Advise = discussing health hazards of tobacco use and giving direct advice to quit. Assess = determining parents' level of readiness to quit. Assist = discussing strategies or techniques to quit, setting a specific date to quit, discussing pharmacotherapy for tobacco cessation, giving written self-help materials to tobacco users. Arrange = discussing local tobacco cessation resources and making a referral to a tobacco quit line.

  3 months post-enrollment

Secondary Outcomes (3)

• Attitudes towards provision of tobacco cessation interventions

  3 months post-enrollment

• Perceived Barriers

  3 months post-enrollment

• Self-Efficacy

  3 months post-enrollment

Study Arms (2)

Control (Delayed Training) Condition

NO INTERVENTION

Participants in this condition were assessed at 1 week, 1 month and 3 months post-enrollment, and were provided access to the WeBREATHe training website upon completion of their 3-month assessment.

Intervention (Training) Condition

EXPERIMENTAL

In this condition, participants used the WeBREATHe training program website for 1 week, and completed assessments at 1 week, 1 month, and 3 months post-training.

Behavioral: WeBREATHe Training Program

Interventions

WeBREATHe Training Program BEHAVIORAL

The WeBREATHe Training Program is a web-based, interactive training program to teach pediatric respiratory therapists, nurses and nurse practitioners how to help their patients' parents to quit smoking.

Intervention (Training) Condition

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 18 Years+
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

• Must be a respiratory Therapist, nurse or nurse practitioner at the 2 pediatric hospitals participating in the study.
• Must be at least 18 years of age.

You may not qualify if:

• Under 18 years of age.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Oregon Research Institute: lead

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Tobacco Use Cessation

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Health Behavior; Behavior

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: SPONSOR

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: July 11, 2012
• First Posted: July 17, 2012
• Study Start: March 1, 2008
• Primary Completion: November 1, 2010
• Study Completion: December 1, 2010
• Last Updated: September 26, 2023

Record last verified: 2023-09