Tobacco Cessation Training Program in Spanish-speaking Countries

NCT02718872 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: FRUITFUL GB-13520139
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 300
• Locations: 0 countries
• Sites: N/A

Brief Summary

This project is responsive to the identified gap of lack of tobacco cessation training programs in Latin American \& Caribbean countries. Currently, smoking rates in the Latin American and Caribbean region are high, and previous surveys show that health professionals do not have enough skills to help smokers to quit. In consequence, in absence of trained health professionals, many smokers who visit health care services are under-treated. The Fruitful Project aims to adapt an original on-line course developed in Spain to the reality of the three Latin American countries (Bolivia, Guatemala and Paraguay) and disseminate evidence-based tobacco cessation interventions among health care professionals.

Conditions

Smoking; Smoking Cessation

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors of trainees

  Trainers' attitudes, knowledge and behaviors will be assessed by using a questionnaire composed of 63-items. The web-site delivered questionnaire is e-mailed to the participants at baseline and 6 months after finishing the training. The questionnaire takes 30-40 minutes to complete. It has been designed according to Sheffer work. The questionnaire gathers information about the provider gender, tobacco use history, previous tobacco cessation education, level of proactivity addressing tobacco use, and perceived success in helping patients stop using tobacco.

  six month

Secondary Outcomes (1)

• Compliance with tobacco control policies in hospitals

  one year

Study Arms (1)

Tobacco cessation online training

EXPERIMENTAL

Six hour smoking cessation online training addressed to health professionals from hospitals in 3 Latin American Countries. Participants are monitored by local coordinators that act as champions. They offer their assistance to log into the online platform, fill out the questionnaires, complete the evaluation, including other technical support. Participants' progress is monitored in real time onto the web platform. The project coordinator at ICO sends a report of the participants progress every other week to coordinators, and if necessary personal emails to motivate students to finish the course and complete the evaluations.

Behavioral: Tobacco cessation online training

Interventions

Tobacco cessation online training BEHAVIORAL

The original course has been developed in the online platform e-oncologia (http://www.e-oncologia.org/en/) based on the in-person courses offered during the last 10 years by the Tobacco Control Unit of the Catalan Institute of Oncology. The theoretical framework underpinning the training program is the Stages of Change Model and the curriculum was developed with the content of numerous meta-analysis and clinical practice guidelines. We created a fully referenced curriculum online, with feedback from an expert advisory group that oriented in the instructional design to ensure the course content was palatable for an online format and aligned with the learning objectives. The final curriculum content of the "Brief Intervention for Smoking Cessation Training Program" is composed of 4 modules.

Tobacco cessation online training

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 18 Years - 70 Years
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

• Health professionals of the participating centers

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Institut Català d'Oncologia: lead
• Instituto Oncológico del Oriente Boliviano: collaborator
• Instituto de Cancerología y Hospital Dr. Bernardo del Valle: collaborator
• Instituto de Enfermedades Respiratoiras INERAM Prof. Dr. Juan Max Boettner: collaborator

Related Publications (1)

• Martinez C, Company A, Guillen O, Margalef M, Arrien MA, Sanchez C, Caceres de Leon P, Fernandez E; Group of Hospital Coordinators in the Fruitful Project. Adaptation, Implementation Plan, and Evaluation of an Online Tobacco Cessation Training Program for Health Care Professionals in Three Spanish-Speaking Latin American Countries: Protocol of the Fruitful Study. JMIR Res Protoc. 2017 Jan 27;6(1):e7. doi: 10.2196/resprot.6487.

  PMID: 28128731 DERIVED

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Smoking; Smoking Cessation

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Behavior; Health Behavior

Study Officials

• Crisitna Martínez, PhD

  Institut Català d'Oncologia - Institut d'Investigació Biomèdica de Bellvitge - Universitat de Barcelona ICO-IDIBELL-UB

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

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: Doctor

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: February 2, 2016
• First Posted: March 24, 2016
• Study Start: January 1, 2015
• Primary Completion: December 1, 2016
• Study Completion: December 1, 2016
• Last Updated: December 22, 2016

Record last verified: 2016-12

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share