Clinical trial NCT05111041: Smokeless Tobacco Cessation Intervention for Firefighters
Official title: Development of a M-Health Smokeless Tobacco Cessation Intervention for Firefighters
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Smokeless Tobacco Cessation
Keywords: Firefighters
Smokeless Tobacco
Quitting Smokeless Tobacco
First Responders
Lead sponsor: Duke University
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: National Cancer Institute (NCI)
First posted: 2021-11-08
Enrollment: 60
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: TREATMENT

Brief summary: The investigators are asking professional firefighters across North Carolina to take part in focus groups to discuss the specific needs of firefighters in smokeless tobacco cessation. About 40 firefighters will take part in the focus groups.

The purpose of the focus groups is to learn how firefighting and shift work impact smokeless tobacco use and risk perceptions related to chew or dip. Using their feedback, the study team will then develop a cessation program specifically geared towards firefighters and first responders.

The cessation program will be a mobile text / chat intervention specifically tailored to needs of firefighters and first responders who wish to stop using smokeless tobacco. About 50 firefighters and first responders will take part in this program, while being randomized into either the intervention group or the control group.


Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Professional firefighters or first responders
* 18 years or older
* Have used smokeless tobacco for the past year and current (past 30 days) smokeless tobacco daily use
* Access to a smartphone

Exclusion Criteria:

* Not a professional firefighter or first responder
* Under 18 years of age
* Have not used smokeless tobacco for the past year and are not current (past 30 days) smokeless tobacco daily use
* No access to a smartphone

Primary outcomes:
measure: Number of First Responders Recruited Who Completed a Screening Assessment
timeFrame: Within 3 months of the initiation of study recruitment
measure: First Responders Who Met the Study Eligibility Criteria, Were Enrolled, and Randomized to a Treatment Arm
timeFrame: Within 3 months of the initiation of study recruitment
measure: Percent of Participants Engaged With the Program as Measured by Completion of the End of Program Questionnaire
timeFrame: 30 days following the end of the 10-week intervention
measure: Number of Participants Who Stated Intervention Was Useful as Measured by Questionnaire
timeFrame: 30 days following the end of the 10-week intervention
measure: Number of Participants Who Stated That #EnufSnuff.TXT Intervention Was Helpful as Measured by Questionnaire
timeFrame: 30 days following the end of the 10-week intervention
measure: Number of Participants Who Stated Intervention Made Them Consider Quitting as Measured by Questionnaire
timeFrame: 30 days following the end of the 10-week intervention
measure: Number of Participants Who Stated They Would Recommend Program to a Friend as Measured by Questionnaire
timeFrame: 30 days following the end of the 10-week intervention
measure: Number of Participants Who Quit Smokeless Tobacco Measured by Self Report
timeFrame: 30 days following the end of the 10-week intervention
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Durham
country: United States
facility: Duke University
state: North Carolina
Study officials:
affiliation: Duke University
name: Devon Noonan, PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
References: