Clinical trial NCT04025333: Helping Ethnic Minority in Hong Kong to Quit Smoking by Understanding Their Knowledge, Attitude and Behavior Related to Smoking
Official title: Helping Ethnic Minority in Hong Kong to Quit Smoking by Understanding Their Knowledge, Attitude and Behavior Related to Smoking
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Conditions: Smoking
Keywords: Smoking Cessation
Lead sponsor: The University of Hong Kong
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2019-07-18
Enrollment: 30
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Observational model: CASE_ONLY
Time perspective: PROSPECTIVE
Sampling method: NON_PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: This study only focuses on ethnic minorities. Ethnic minorities refer to persons who reported themselves being of non-Chinese ethnicity in the Population Census/By-census.

Brief summary: This study aims at understanding the needs and concerns of the ethnic minority in Hong Kong, including their behavior, attitudes, and experiences related to smoking and smoking cessation. Specifically, how the level of smoking-related knowledge among them differ from the rest of the Hong Kong people, will be explored. In addition, whether Hong Kong smoking policy influenced the smoking pattern of them will be investigated.

Detailed description: Cigarette smoking is the most significant preventable cause of death and disease, causing 6 million deaths annually worldwide. Despite the fact that tobacco use in Hong Kong has been decreased from 23.3% in 1982 to 10.1% in 2017, the remaining 620 600 daily smokers\[3\] cannot be overlooked or undervalued.

Hong Kong is a predominantly Chinese society, but it has a sizeable South Asian ethnic minority (EM). According to the Census \& Statistics Department, the number of ethnic minorities in Hong Kong increased significantly by 70.8% over the past 10 years. Nevertheless, few smoking and health promotion activities and smoking cessation services have been tailor-made for ethnic minorities in Hong Kong. The barrier of supplying smoking cessation service to the ethnic minority group is that their smoking motivation, willingness to quit, obstacles of quit smoking, attitude towards Hong Kong tobacco law and smoking cessation services are not sure. This will be the first research exploring their knowledge, attitude and experience of cigarette smoking.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Only smokers with South Asian(Pakistani, Indian, or Nepalese)backgrounds
* Willing to participate
* aged 18 years or above
* able to speak English
* smoke at least one cigarette per day for the past 3 months

Exclusion Criteria:

* Domestic workers, asylum seekers, refugees, or illegal immigrants, individuals with other ethnic backgrounds, i.e., Africans
* Cannot speak English
* poor cognitive state or active psychotic symptoms, i.e. hallucination, illusion and delusion, noted in the medical records.

Primary outcomes:
measure: The smoking behaviour among ethnic minorities in Hong Kong.
timeFrame: at the baseline
measure: The knowledge of the risk of smoking in ethnic minorities in Hong Kong.
timeFrame: at the baseline
measure: Attitudes towards smoking, tobacco control and smoking cessation in ethnic minorities in Hong Kong.
timeFrame: at the baseline
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Hong Kong
country: Hong Kong
facility: The University of Hong Kong
Study officials:
affiliation: The University of Hong Kong
name: Ho Cheung William Li, PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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