Helping Ethnic Minority in Hong Kong to Quit Smoking by Understanding Their Knowledge, Attitude and Behavior Related to Smoking

NCT04025333 | Completed DMC

• 1 other identifier: UW 18-514
• Study Type: observational
• Target: 30
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

This study aims at understanding the needs and concerns of the ethnic minority in Hong Kong, including their behavior, attitudes, and experiences related to smoking and smoking cessation. Specifically, how the level of smoking-related knowledge among them differ from the rest of the Hong Kong people, will be explored. In addition, whether Hong Kong smoking policy influenced the smoking pattern of them will be investigated.

Conditions

Smoking

Keywords

Smoking Cessation

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (3)

• The smoking behaviour among ethnic minorities in Hong Kong.

  Participants were asked about: 1. The reasons started smoking and the reasons keep smoking behaviour. 2. The cigarette consumption, the type of cigarettes consumed and the smoking area of ethnic minorities. 3. The number of quit attempts, the motivation to quit smoking, the ways they overcome withdraw symptoms and depression symptoms as well as reasons they failed to quit. 4. The reason they don't want to quit smoking. 5. Whether the above items have changed after they moved from their original countries to Hong Kong.

  at the baseline

• The knowledge of the risk of smoking in ethnic minorities in Hong Kong.

  Participants were asked about their knowledge of the risk of smoking.

  at the baseline

• Attitudes towards smoking, tobacco control and smoking cessation in ethnic minorities in Hong Kong.

  Participants were asked about 1. The attitudes towards smoking, tobacco control policy and smoking cessation. 2. Their family members' and peers' attitude to their smoking behaviour.

  at the baseline

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 18 Years+
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: No
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)
• Sampling Method: Non-Probability Sample

Study Population

This study only focuses on ethnic minorities. Ethnic minorities refer to persons who reported themselves being of non-Chinese ethnicity in the Population Census/By-census.

You may qualify if:

• Only smokers with South Asian(Pakistani, Indian, or Nepalese)backgrounds
• Willing to participate
• aged 18 years or above
• able to speak English
• smoke at least one cigarette per day for the past 3 months

You may not qualify if:

• Domestic workers, asylum seekers, refugees, or illegal immigrants, individuals with other ethnic backgrounds, i.e., Africans
• Cannot speak English
• poor cognitive state or active psychotic symptoms, i.e. hallucination, illusion and delusion, noted in the medical records.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• The University of Hong Kong: lead

Study Sites (1)

The University of Hong Kong

Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Location

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Smoking; Smoking Cessation

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Behavior; Health Behavior

Study Officials

• Ho Cheung William Li, PhD

  The University of Hong Kong

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: observational
• Observational Model: CASE ONLY
• Time Perspective: PROSPECTIVE
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: SPONSOR

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: June 10, 2019
• First Posted: July 18, 2019
• Study Start: September 18, 2018
• Primary Completion: April 18, 2019
• Study Completion: August 31, 2019
• Last Updated: April 21, 2020

Record last verified: 2020-04

Data Sharing

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

Locations

HK (1)