Air Quality Feedback to Reduce Second-hand Smoke (SHS) Exposure in the Home

NCT03151421 | Completed DMC

• 1 other identifier: TackSHS WP4
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 86
• Locations: 0 countries
• Sites: N/A

Brief Summary

This is a European study which is part of a larger research project (The TackSHS project) funded by the European Union's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme (Grant Agreement No 681040) and led by the Catalan Institute of Oncology. This study will examine the efficacy of using personalised air quality measurements in homes of smokers to encourage behaviour-change towards having a smoke-free home environment. Building on recent quantitative and qualitative work showing that feedback of second-hand smoke (SHS) measurement information can help motivate smokers to change their behaviour. This study will develop a targeted intervention for use with socio-economically deprived smokers in four countries (Scotland, Spain, Greece, Italy) across the EU. Two-hundred smokers (50 in each country) will be recruited and offered low-cost, simple to operate particle counting instruments to measure and log SHS levels in their home for a period of 30 days. During this time near real-time, personalised feedback will be provided to, and discussed with, the smoker along with target-setting and exploration of suitable methods of behaviour-change. Feedback will be given via text message to mobile phones, emails and personal voice calls. A final visit will gather data on changes made while a proportion of participants (10-20%) in each country will take part in a further qualitative interview by phone to gather data on their experience of the intervention. Study outcomes will include quantitative measures such as changes in average and maximum fine particulate matter (PM2.5) concentrations and self-declared household smoking rules, while qualitative data will be gathered using questionnaire and interview to explore what elements of the intervention were useful/unhelpful, particularly well/poorly understood, and what were the barriers for those who did not make changes. This WP will provide a comprehensive database of baseline measurements of SHS concentrations in home settings from across the EU with the potential to generate over 8 million minutes of measurements of household air quality. Analysis of the differences by country and possible determinants of exposure will be carried out.

Conditions

Second Hand Tobacco Smoke; Tobacco Smoking; Tobacco Use

Keywords

air quality feedback; second-hand smoke; passive smoking; exposure to second-hand smoke; second-hand smoke exposure prevention

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Change in air quality (pre-/post-intervention)

  Arithmetic mean concentrations of PM2.5 will be calculated for homes over the days 1-7, days 23-29 and whole sampling time, and presented with standard deviations and ranges.

  The intervention will last 1 month. Comparison of differences in PM2.5 average concentrations during the first week of intervention (day 1-7) and the last one (day 23-29)

Secondary Outcomes (2)

• Changes in self-declared household smoking rules (pre-/post-intervention)

  Pre-/post intervention (30 days)

• Effectiveness of the intervention (self-declared)

  After the 30 days of the intervention (one time-point measurement)

Study Arms (1)

Home air quality monitoring and feedback

EXPERIMENTAL

Home air quality monitoring and feedback

Behavioral: Home air quality monitoring and feedback

Interventions

Home air quality monitoring and feedback BEHAVIORAL

Two-hundred smokers (50 in each country) will be recruited and offered low-cost, simple to operate particle counting instruments to measure and log SHS levels in their home for a period of 30 days. During this time near real-time, personalised feedback will be provided to, and discussed with, the smoker along with target-setting and exploration of suitable methods of behaviour-change. Feedback will be given via text message to mobile phones, emails and personal voicecalls. A final visit will gather data on changes made while a proportion of participants (10-20%) in each country will take part in a further qualitative interview by phone to gather data on their experience of the intervention.

Home air quality monitoring and feedback

Eligibility Criteria

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

You may qualify if:

• Adult (18 years or over) who smokes inside their home on a daily basis
• Takes care of a child (16 years old or under) in their home at least once per week
• Lives in a SIMD quintile 1 or 2 postcode or equivalent (i.e. within 40% most deprived households in their country)
• Does not plan to move home in the next 2 months
• Is at the contemplative stage regarding having a smoke-free home and indicates that they feel it would be possible for their home to go smoke-free
• Has a personal mobile phone, email address and some form of regular access to the internet (either by computer or smartphone)

You may not qualify if:

• \. Persons with low literacy level that would prevent understanding and following study instructions

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Institut Català d'Oncologia: lead
• University of Aberdeen: collaborator
• Istituto per lo Studio, la Prevenzione e la Rete Oncologica: collaborator
• Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori, Milano: collaborator
• Hellenic Cancer Society: collaborator
• Public Health Agency of Barcelona: collaborator

Related Links

• TackSHS Project at CORDIS

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Tobacco Smoking; Tobacco Use

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Smoking; Behavior

Study Officials

• Sean Semple, PhD

  University of Aberdeen, Respiratory Group, Division of Applied Health Sciences

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: NA
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: PREVENTION
• Intervention Model: SINGLE GROUP
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: SPONSOR

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: March 30, 2017
• First Posted: May 12, 2017
• Study Start: September 1, 2016
• Primary Completion: May 1, 2019
• Study Completion: May 1, 2019
• Last Updated: August 28, 2019

Record last verified: 2019-08

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share