A Multi-Media Approach to Partner Support in Smokeless Tobacco Cessation (UCare-ChewFree)

Study Overview
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Brief Summary
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In an earlier study, the investigators developed a guidebook that taught women supportive behaviors to help their husbands/partners quit smokeless tobacco. This study will create a website using the information in the guidebook, along with interactive features, videos, and forums. The investigators will then conduct a randomized trial comparing an intervention group (receiving website access and the printed guidebook) with a delayed treatment control condition, to learn if the support intervention can effectively teach women supportive behaviors and thereby increase their partners' smokeless tobacco cessation rates.

Official Title
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A Multi-Media Approach to Partner Support in Smokeless Tobacco Cessation

Conditions
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Tobacco Use Cessation

Intervention / Treatment
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* Behavioral: Multimedia Support Intervention


Participation Criteria
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Eligibility Criteria
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Inclusion Criteria: being the wife or female domestic partner (living together) of a male who is a current user of ST products (snuff or chewing tobacco) interested in having him quit ST use willing to provide a phone number, mailing address, and e-mail address provides informed consent the woman and the chewer are both U.S. or Canadian residents age 18 or older the woman and the chewer are both able to read English the woman and the chewer are both able to access a computer Exclusion Criteria: none

Ages Eligible for Study
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Minimum Age: 18 Years

Sexes Eligible for Study
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Female

Accepts Healthy Volunteers
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Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Study Plan
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How is the study designed?
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Design Details

Primary Purpose: Treatment
Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: None (Open Label)


Arms and Interventions

| Participant Group/Arm | Intervention/Treatment |
| --- | --- |
| Experimental: Multimedia Support Intervention<br>(a) access to a website providing the content of our supporter guidebook, supplemented with interactive components, video elements, and a supporters' forum, and (b) a mailed copy of our supporter guidebook | Behavioral: Multimedia Support Intervention<br> <br> |
| No Intervention: Delayed Treatment Control<br>Access to the Multimedia Intervention after participant completes the final follow-up assessment | |

What is the study measuring?
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Primary Outcome Measures

| Outcome Measure | Measure Description | Time Frame |
| --- | --- | --- |
| smokeless tobacco cessation | the male ST user's 6-month cessation as reported by the female partner | 7.5-month follow-up | 

Secondary Outcome Measures

| Outcome Measure | Measure Description | Time Frame |
| --- | --- | --- |
| tobacco quit attempts | the male smokeless tobacco user's quit attempts, as reported by the female partner | 7.5 month follow-up | 
| supportive behaviors | change in the female partner's supportive behaviors | 7.5 month follow-up | 

 Terms related to the study
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Keywords Provided by Centre Hospitalier Valida
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smokeless tobacco cessation, social support, partner support