Clinical trial NCT00245076: Smokefree.Gov Website in Helping United States Federal Employees Quit Smoking
Official title: Evaluation of the Impact of a Bulletin Board on a Web-Based Smoking Cessation Intervention
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Unspecified Adult Solid Tumor, Protocol Specific
Keywords: unspecified adult solid tumor, protocol specific
Lead sponsor: National Cancer Institute (NCI)
Sponsor class: NIH
First posted: 2005-10-27
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Primary purpose: PREVENTION

Brief summary: RATIONALE: Stop-smoking information on the smokefree.gov website may help people quit smoking and remain a nonsmoker.

PURPOSE: This clinical trial is studying how well the smokefree.gov website works with an electronic bulletin board in helping United States federal employees quit smoking.

Detailed description: OBJECTIVES:

* Determine the perception of utility of the current, publicly accessible version of the smokefree.gov website and the addition of an electronic bulletin board and its features, including open-ended comments, in promoting smoking cessation among United States federal employees who are currently smokers.
* Determine the use of this tool, in terms of average length of time spent on the website, number of page clicks, most popular page clicks, and key interest areas, among these participants.
* Determine the changes in smoking habits, in terms of smoking reduction and short- and long-term abstinence, among these participants.

OUTLINE: This is an open-label study.

Participants are encouraged to use the smokefree.gov website as frequently as needed for support and resources while trying to quit smoking and become, and remain, nonsmokers. Participants are invited to provide feedback on the usefulness of self-help guidelines and several other tools. Participants complete questionnaires evaluating the website at study entry and at 1, 3, and 6 months after study entry.

PROJECTED ACCRUAL: A total of 4,200 participants will be accrued for this study.

Eligibility criteria: DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS:

* Currently smokes \> 1 cigarette daily by self reporting
* Planning to quit smoking in the next 90 days by self reporting
* Must be a federal employee or federally employed

PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS:

Performance status

* Not specified

Life expectancy

* Not specified

Hematopoietic

* Not specified

Hepatic

* Not specified

Renal

* Not specified

PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY: Any prior or concurrent therapy allowed

Primary outcomes:
measure: Abstinence for 7 consecutive days and 24 hours at 1, 3, and 6 months
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Visits to the website after registration at 1, 3, and 6 months
measure: Satisfaction with the website at 1, 3, and 6 months
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Rockville
country: United States
facility: Tobacco Control Research Branch
state: Maryland
Study officials:
affiliation: National Cancer Institute (NCI)
name: Jacqueline Stoddard, PhD, MA
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
References:
citation: Stoddard JL, Augustson EM, Moser RP. Effect of adding a virtual community (bulletin board) to smokefree.gov: randomized controlled trial. J Med Internet Res. 2008 Dec 19;10(5):e53. doi: 10.2196/jmir.1124.