Brief Tobacco Cessation Counselling: Mini Train-the-trainers Program

NCT02508597 | Unknown DMC

• 1 other identifier: MiniTTT
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 120
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

Physicians play a critical role in reducing tobacco use by advising smoking patients to quit. After receiving such advice to quit smoking, patients were more likely to report trying to quit, quitting for at least 24 hours, making more quit attempts, and having more successful quitting outcomes compared with those who received no such advice. On the other hand, most physicians are not performing smoking cessation counselling, and miss the opportunities to advise patients to quit smoking. One of the common reasons is the lack of time. Physicians are busy and cannot afford even one minute to advice their patients to quit smoking. Other barriers include lack of training and experience, lack of knowledge and skills, no awareness about the benefits and effects of physicians' advice, no incentives and no support or requirement from hospital management that they have to do it. We designed a brief smoking cessation counselling model (AWARD) which takes only 10-20 seconds. We will train the physicians to perform the AWARD cessation counselling model in clinic, and encourage them to participate in our brief smoking cessation intervention project using the randomized controlled trail (RCT) design and to train more peer physicians to perform brief smoking cessation counseling. We propose to investigate the effect of the training program on physicians' knowledge of tobacco cessation, practice of performing cessation counselling, and attitudes toward tobacco control policies.

Conditions

Smoking

Keywords

Smoking cessation intervention

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (2)

• KAP change from baseline at 6-month follow-up

  Use questionnaire to measure the change of "Knowledge of smoking, secondhand smoke exposure, and the role of physicians in tobacco control", "Attitudes toward tobacco control policies" and "Practice of smoking cessation counseling" (KAP)

  6-month follow-up

• KAP change from baseline at 12-month follow-up

  Use questionnaire to measure the change of "Knowledge of smoking, secondhand smoke exposure, and the role of physicians in tobacco control", "Attitudes toward tobacco control policies" and "Practice of smoking cessation counseling" (KAP)

  12-month follow-up

Secondary Outcomes (2)

• Satisfaction of the mini TTT workshop

  24 months

• Number of peer physicians the participants trained

  30 months

Study Arms (1)

Physicians receiving smoking cessation training

OTHER

On the training day, the investigators will explain at the beginning of the workshop the purpose of the training, and the details of the brief smoking cessation intervention to all physicians who attend the training workshop.

Other: Physicians receiving smoking cessation training

Interventions

Physicians receiving smoking cessation training OTHER

On the training day, the investigators will explain at the beginning of the workshop the purpose of the training, and the details of the brief smoking cessation intervention to all physicians who attend the training workshop.

Physicians receiving smoking cessation training

Eligibility Criteria

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

You may qualify if:

• Internal medicine physicians from participating hospitals/clinics.

You may not qualify if:

• N/A

Sponsors & Collaborators

• The University of Hong Kong: lead

Study Sites (1)

5/F William MW Mong Block, LKS Faculty of Medicine Building, 21 Sassoon Road, Pokfulam

Hong Kong, Guangdong, China

RECRUITING

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Smoking

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Behavior

Study Officials

• Tai Hing Lam, MD

  The University of Hong Kong

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Central Study Contacts

Tai Hing Lam, MD

CONTACT

+852 3917 9287; hrmrlth@hku.hk

Christina Lam

CONTACT

+852 3917 6662; coblam@hku.hk

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: NA
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH
• Intervention Model: SINGLE GROUP
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Chair Professor

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: July 8, 2015
• First Posted: July 27, 2015
• Study Start: August 1, 2014
• Primary Completion: November 1, 2017
• Study Completion: December 1, 2017
• Last Updated: November 6, 2017

Record last verified: 2017-10

Locations

CN (1)