Clinical trial NCT01652508: Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Smoking Cessation in the Primary Care Setting
Official title: Individual, Telephone-delivered Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Smoking Cessation in the Primary Healthcare Setting: Feasibility and Potential Efficacy
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Smoking Cessation
Keywords: smoking cessation
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
primary care setting
randomised controlled trial
Lead sponsor: The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: Food and Health Bureau, Hong Kong
First posted: 2012-07-30
Enrollment: 156
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH

Brief summary: The purpose of this study is to evaluate the feasibility and potential efficacy of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) in enhancing smoking cessation among attendees in primary healthcare settings.

Detailed description: The program is preventive and corrective, and carries brief messages by approaching and influencing services attendees who may not be able to reach in traditional reactive approach method of service users. Those traditional approaches are, for example, quitline and smoking cessation clinic. It can therefore benefit a larger population at low cost.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* aged 18 years and older
* currently smoking at least one cigarette per day in the past 30 days
* Hong Kong residents
* able to communicate in Cantonese
* currently residing in Hong Kong and expecting to continue to do so for the next 6 months
* have access to a telephone

Exclusion Criteria:

* currently undergoing another smoking cessation or similar program

Primary outcomes:
measure: 7-day point prevalence by self report
timeFrame: at 6 months
Secondary outcomes:
measure: validated self-report not smoking measured
timeFrame: at 6 months after the baseline
Other outcomes:
measure: Feasibility outcomes
timeFrame: 1 year
Locations:
city: Hung Hom
country: Hong Kong
facility: School of Nursing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
state: Kowloon
city: Tai Po
country: Hong Kong
facility: United Christian Nethersole Community Health Service, Kwong Fuk Community Health Centre
state: New Territories
city: Tin Shui Wai
country: Hong Kong
facility: Heavenly Joy Family Clinic
state: New Territories
Study officials:
affiliation: School of Nursing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
name: YW Mak, PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
affiliation: School of Nursing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
name: AY Loke, PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
References:
citation: Mak YW, Lee PH, Loke AY. Predictors of participation in a telephone-based Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for smoking cessation study. BMC Public Health. 2015 Dec 23;15:1288. doi: 10.1186/s12889-015-2650-0.
citation: Mak YW, Loke AY. The acceptance and commitment therapy for smoking cessation in the primary health care setting: a study protocol. BMC Public Health. 2015 Feb 7;15:105. doi: 10.1186/s12889-015-1485-z.
citation: Jackson S, Brown J, Norris E, Livingstone-Banks J, Hayes E, Lindson N. Mindfulness for smoking cessation. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2022 Apr 14;4(4):CD013696. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD013696.pub2.
citation: Mak YW, Leung DYP, Loke AY. Effectiveness of an individual acceptance and commitment therapy for smoking cessation, delivered face-to-face and by telephone to adults recruited in primary health care settings: a randomized controlled trial. BMC Public Health. 2020 Nov 16;20(1):1719. doi: 10.1186/s12889-020-09820-0.