Clinical trial NCT01642264: Web-Based Respiratory Education About Tobacco and Health Phase II
Official title: Web-Based Respiratory Education About Tobacco and Health (WeBREATHe) Phase II
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Intervention (Training) Condition
Control (Delayed Training) Condition
Keywords: Tobacco Cessation
Continuing Education
Pediatric
Respiratory Therapist
Nurse
Lead sponsor: Oregon Research Institute
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2012-07-17
Enrollment: 217
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH

Brief summary: The primary aim of this study was to develop an interactive Internet-based program (WeBREATHe: Web-Based Respiratory Education About Tobacco and Health) to train pediatric respiratory therapists and nurses to provide brief, hospital-based tobacco cessation interventions to parents of pediatric patients. The WeBREATHe program was based on a Phase I prototype which was evaluated with 50 pediatric respiratory therapists and nurses.

In Phase II, the investigators redesigned and expanded the program with input from 50 educators, nurses and respiratory therapists from Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center. Then the investigators evaluated the Phase II program in a randomized trial in which 215 respiratory therapists and nurses from two large, urban children's hospitals were randomly assigned within hospital to either the Intervention (Training) Condition, or to a Delayed Treatment (Training) Control condition.

Participants' demographic and tobacco use history were measured at baseline, and tobacco cessation intervention behaviors, attitudes, knowledge, perceived barriers, and self-efficacy regarding delivery of a tobacco cessation intervention were measured at baseline, 1 week post-training, and at 3 months post-training. User satisfaction measures were also collected at 1 week post-training from Intervention Condition participants. The investigators hypothesized that participants in the Intervention Condition would have increased tobacco cessation behaviors, positive attitudes and self-efficacy, and decreased perceived barriers than participants i the Delayed-Treatment Control Condition.

Following evaluation, the investigators developed a final version of the interactive training program and created the administrative infrastructure for a marketable product.


Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Must be a respiratory Therapist, nurse or nurse practitioner at the 2 pediatric hospitals participating in the study.
* Must be at least 18 years of age.

Exclusion Criteria:

* Under 18 years of age.

Primary outcomes:
measure: Performance of Ask, Advise, Assess, Assist and Arrange Behaviors
timeFrame: 3 months post-enrollment
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Attitudes towards provision of tobacco cessation interventions
timeFrame: 3 months post-enrollment
measure: Perceived Barriers
timeFrame: 3 months post-enrollment
measure: Self-Efficacy
timeFrame: 3 months post-enrollment
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