Promoting Women's Health: A Gender Specific Smoking Cessation Program for Female Smokers in Hong Kong

NCT03717662 | Unknown

• 1 other identifier: UW 06-323
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 480
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

This project aims to publicize quitting among female smokers, and encourage and support those who want to quit by providing face-to-face and/or telephone counseling. The objectives are to:

1. 1.Build up a Women Against Tobacco Taskforce (WATT) with woman volunteers from various organizations to promote quitting in female smokers, and to arouse public awareness of the effects of smoking on sexual, reproductive and child health, and other diseases among women.
2. 2.Conduct a survey among the women volunteers and staff of the women's organization to ascertain their learning needs, knowledge, attitudes, and practice of tobacco control and smoking cessation, and to identify interested participants to join the smoking cessation training program.
3. 3.Design and deliver a smoking cessation counseling training program (based on the learning needs identified), to equip women volunteers with the knowledge and skills in smoking cessation.
4. 4.Develop and evaluate a gender-specific smoking cessation program to help female smokers to reduce and quit smoking.
5. 5.Promote women's health and quality of life, and reduce the life-long morbidity and mortality of female smokers in the long term.
6. 6.Examine the long term (3-year) impact of a gender-specific smoking cessation program on the smoking behaviors of female smokers.
7. 7.Examine another long-term (6-year) impact of a gender-specific smoking cessation program on the smoking behaviors of female smokers.
8. 8.Ascertain the contributing factors in the rate of quitting, retention and relapse.
9. 9.Investigate Hong Kong women smokers awareness and attitude to women quitline.

Conditions

Smoking Cessation

Keywords

women

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

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

  the reduced cigarette consumption; progression to a higher stage of readiness to change; quit attempts, and increased self-efficacy to quitting smoking. In the long term, the quit rate (not smoke for at least 7 days during the time of follow up); smoking reduction, progression of stage of readiness, at 6 months; and change in quality of life

  6-month follow-up

Secondary Outcomes (1)

• Bio-chemical validated smoking abstinence at 6-,36-,72-month

  6-,36-,72-month follow-up

Study Arms (1)

Brief counseling and NRT

EXPERIMENTAL

The project will provide intensive counseling at the Centre for Health Promotion (CHP) of HKU Department of Nursing Studies, female smokers (including all types of tobacco products such as shisha, electronic cigarettes and heat-not-burn (HNB) which are available in the market) who require more intensive counseling or advice on nicotine replacement therapy, upon referral from the women's organizations and trained women counselors. The smokers will receive face-to-face (or telephone) counseling and a 1 week supply of Nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) (4 mg nicotine gum or 10 mg/ 15 mg nicotine patch) from the nurse counselor, and follow up calls at 1 week, 1-, 3-, 6-, 36- and 72-month post-intervention.

Drug: nicotine gum or nicotine patch

Interventions

nicotine gum or nicotine patch DRUG

The project will provide intensive counseling at the Centre for Health Promotion (CHP) of HKU Department of Nursing Studies, female smokers who require more intensive counseling or advice on nicotine replacement therapy, upon referral from the women's organizations and trained women counselors. The smokers will receive face-to-face (or telephone) counseling and a 1 week supply of Nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) (4 mg nicotine gum or 10 mg/ 15 mg nicotine patch) from the nurse counselor, and follow up calls at 1 week, 1-, 3-, 6-, 36- and 72-month post-intervention.

Brief counseling and NRT

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 15 Years+
• Gender Eligibility Details: Only female smokers will be selected.
• Healthy Volunteers: No
• Age Groups: Child (0-17), Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

• Hong Kong female resident aged 18 or above
• Able to communicate in Chinese (Cantonese)
• Current Smokers

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

Interventions

Nicotine Chewing Gum; Tobacco Use Cessation Devices

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Health Behavior; Behavior

Intervention Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Chewing Gum; Plant Gums; Biopolymers; Polymers; Macromolecular Substances; Polysaccharides; Carbohydrates; Therapeutics; Candy; Food; Diet, Food, and Nutrition; Physiological Phenomena; Food and Beverages

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: October 22, 2018
• First Posted: October 24, 2018
• Study Start: April 1, 2006
• Primary Completion: October 1, 2024
• Study Completion: November 30, 2024
• Last Updated: December 21, 2020

Record last verified: 2020-12

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

CN (1)