Promoting Smoking Cessation for Female Smokers in Hong Kong Through Training Female Youth SCRA

NCT02755740 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: Girl Guide
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 100
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

This project aims to promote quitting, and reduction for those who do not want to quit, among female smokers through training female youth as smoking cessation and reduction ambassadors (SCRA). The objectives are to:

1. 1.Promote age and gender-specific smoking cessation and reduction to the female population
2. 2.Deliver a smoking cessation and reduction ambassador training workshop to equip and empower female youth with the knowledge on the adverse effects of smoking on female smokers and the skills in smoking cessation and reduction and in raising public awareness of the harmful effects of smoking on female smokers.
3. 3.Have the trained female youth to deliver a brief advice (AWARD) to female smokers to help them to quit or reduce smoking and refer them to the female-specific smoking cessation hotline or the Department of Health Quitline for further assistance if needed.

Conditions

Smoking Cessation

Keywords

female

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• The self-reported quit rate

  not smoke for at least 7 days

  6-month follow-up

Secondary Outcomes (4)

• biochemical-validated quit rate

  6-month follow-up

• smoking reduction rate

  1-, 3-, and 6-month follow-up

• smoking quit attempt

  1-, 3-, and 6-month follow-up

• KAP change of SCRA from baseline to 3- and 6-month follow-up

  3- and 6-month follow-up

Study Arms (1)

receiving age and gender-specific SC advice

OTHER

After delivering the "AWARD" advice, the trained SCRA will seek consent from and refer adult female smokers (aged over 25 years) to our intensive smoking cessation telephone or face-to-face counselling interventions, which has already counselled 509 female smokers with a quit rate of 29.7% at 6-month and 26.7% at 3-year follow up. Female youth smokers will give consent and be referred to our Youth Quitline (5111 4333), a smoking cessation telephone counselling for young people aged 25 or below which has counselled 1257 smokers with a quit rate of 21.9% at 6 months. If necessary, the female smokers can be referred to other smoking cessation services (e.g., the integrated smoking cessation hotline by the Department of Health (1833-183).

Other: receiving age and gender-specific SC advice

Interventions

receiving age and gender-specific SC advice OTHER

After delivering the "AWARD" advice, the trained SCRA will seek consent from and refer adult female smokers (aged over 25 years) to our intensive smoking cessation telephone or face-to-face counselling interventions, which has already counselled 509 female smokers with a quit rate of 29.7% at 6-month and 26.7% at 3-year follow up. Female youth smokers will give consent and be referred to our Youth Quitline (5111 4333), a smoking cessation telephone counselling for young people aged 25 or below which has counselled 1257 smokers with a quit rate of 21.9% at 6 months. If necessary, the female smokers can be referred to other smoking cessation services (e.g., the integrated smoking cessation hotline by the Department of Health (1833-183).

receiving age and gender-specific SC advice

Eligibility Criteria

• Sex: female
• Healthy Volunteers: No
• Age Groups: Child (0-17), Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

• be able to communicate with Cantonese

You may not qualify if:

• taking Psychiatric drugs

Sponsors & Collaborators

• The University of Hong Kong: lead

Study Sites (1)

The University of Hong Kong

Hong Kong, China

Location

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Smoking Cessation

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Health Behavior; Behavior

Study Officials

• William LI, Phd

  School of Nursing, the University of Hong Kong

  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: Associate Professor

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: April 17, 2016
• First Posted: April 29, 2016
• Study Start: July 1, 2015
• Primary Completion: May 1, 2017
• Study Completion: August 1, 2017
• Last Updated: October 26, 2017

Record last verified: 2017-10

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

CN (1)