Helping Youth Smokers Stop Smoking Through the Youth Quitline Programme

NCT02758028 | Unknown

• 1 other identifier: YouthQuitline
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 300
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

The aims of the present study are:

1. 1.To raise the awareness of smoking cessation service among youth smokers in Hong Kong;
2. 2.To provide smoking cessation quitline service to youth smokers; and
3. 3.To provide training to teenagers as peer smoking cessation counsellors.
4. 4.To examine the effectiveness of adventure-based training and WhatsApp messages in helping youth smokers to quit

Conditions

Smoking Cessation

Keywords

Youth; Adventure-based training; WhatsApp messages

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• 7-days point prevalence smoking abstinence at 6-month

  7-days point prevalence smoking abstinence is measured at 6-month. A questionnaire asking smoking status, quitting experience and difficulty in quitting was designed to assess the self-reported smoking abstinence at 6-month.

  6-month follow-up

Secondary Outcomes (1)

• Bio-chemical validated smoking abstinence at 6-month

  6-month follow-up

Study Arms (1)

Brief counseling

OTHER

Peer counselling is delivered based on the queries and the needs of individual clients, according to the smoking status, dependency level and the perceived barriers of each individual with the use of motivational intervention approach. Counsellors will emphasizes the identification, use, and modification of personally relevant coping strategies. Advice will be provided on overcoming expected difficulty, withdrawal symptoms and relapse prevention during quitting. The subjects will be followed up at 1-week, 1-, 3-, 6-, 9-, 12- and 24-month via telephone assessing their smoking status and reinforce intervention.

Behavioral: Brief counseling

Interventions

Brief counseling BEHAVIORAL

Peer counselling is delivered based on the queries and the needs of individual clients, according to the smoking status, dependency level and the perceived barriers of each individual with the use of motivational intervention approach. The subjects will be followed up at 1-week, 1-, 3-, 6-, 9-, 12- and 24-month via telephone assessing their smoking status and reinforce intervention.

Brief counseling

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: Up to 25 Years
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: No
• Age Groups: Child (0-17), Adult (18-64)

You may qualify if:

• Hong Kong resident aged 25 or below
• Able to communicate in Chinese (Cantonese)
• Smoked in the past 30 days

You may not qualify if:

• Have difficulty to communicate via telephone
• Having queries irrelevant to tobacco control

Sponsors & Collaborators

• The University of Hong Kong: lead

Study Sites (1)

The University of Hong Kong

Hong Kong, China

RECRUITING

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Smoking Cessation

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Health Behavior; Behavior

Study Officials

• Ho-Cheung Li, PhD

  The University of Hong Kong

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Central Study Contacts

Ho-Cheung Li, PhD

CONTACT

39176634; william3@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: Associate Professor

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: April 28, 2016
• First Posted: May 2, 2016
• Study Start: August 1, 2005
• Primary Completion: November 1, 2021
• Study Completion: November 1, 2021
• Last Updated: December 14, 2020

Record last verified: 2020-04

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will share
• Time Frame: After the project is completed and the results of the project has been published.
• Access Criteria: Request could be sent to Principal Investigator (william3@hku.hk)

Locations

CN (1)