Clinical trial NCT04114526: Durham Housing Authority (DHA) Community Health Advisor (CHA) Smoking Cessation Project
Official title: Collaboration to Develop and Pilot Test a Community Health Advisor Smoking Cessation Program for Durham Public Housing Residents
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Smoking Cessation
Lead sponsor: Duke University
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2019-10-03
Enrollment: 31
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: NA
Intervention model: SINGLE_GROUP
Primary purpose: OTHER

Brief summary: Recent policy from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) mandates that all public housing units go smoke-free by August 2018. Residents in public housing units have little access to proven cessation interventions and support is imperative to increase quitting success and is currently lacking in these communities;' thus this mandate is causing stress without providing resources to quit. Using a Community Engaged Research (CEnR) approach, we propose to partner the Durham County Department of Public Health and the Durham Housing Authority to develop sustainable Community Health Advisor tobacco cessation program that can be implemented in public housing communities. To achieve this goal, we plan to build on our previous collaborations to 1) form a team of previously identified DHA residents who are activated to support smoking cessation among public housing residents who can serve as Community Health Advisors and deliver cessation interventions in DHA properties, and 2) co-develop and pilot test a Community Health Advisor smoking cessation program to promote linkages with cessation services and to provide cessation education to DHA residents. This collaboration builds on our previous work to understand barriers and identify solutions for supporting smoking cessation among DHA residents. We will work with Community Health Advisors to develop an intervention and conduct a pilot study with up to 30 participants, Our primary outcomes are feasibility and acceptability of the co-development cessation intervention. We will collect survey data for the pilot in REDCap. Potential risks of study participation include breach of confidentiality with regard to identifiable personal information and questions that might make participants feel uncomfortable.


Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* ≥18 years of age
* current smoker (smoked in the last seven days)
* planning on quitting in the next 6 months
* speak English
* currently living in DHA property

Exclusion Criteria:

* less than18 years of
* cognitive impairment
* planning to move from the property in the next 2 months

Primary outcomes:
measure: Number of people who enroll in the study as measured by enrollment log.
timeFrame: 4 months
measure: Number of people that interact with community health advisors
timeFrame: 5 months
measure: Number of participants who rate the intervention as helpful for quitting based on survey questionnaire.
timeFrame: 5 months
measure: Change in number of cigarettes smoked per day as measured by questionnaire
timeFrame: Baseline and day 28
measure: Change in smoking cessation motivation will be self-reported on a 7-point scale.
timeFrame: Baseline and day 28
measure: Change in smoking status as measured by self-reports.
timeFrame: Baseline and day 28
measure: Frequency of interaction with community health advisors during intervention period will be calculated from self-reports.
timeFrame: Day 28
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Durham
country: United States
facility: Duke University
state: North Carolina
Study officials:
affiliation: Duke University
name: Laura J Fish, PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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