Clinical trial NCT02571244: Text Messaging for Supporting Quit Attempts
Official title: Telephone Counseling and Text Messaging for Supporting Post-discharge Quit Attempts Among Hospitalized Smokers in Brazil
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Tobacco Use Cessation
Tobacco Use Disorder
Keywords: Tobacco Use Disorder
Hospitalized patients
Text message
Motivational Interview
Substance-Related Disorders
Behaviors and Mental Disorders
Lead sponsor: Federal University of Juiz de Fora
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: University of Kansas
First posted: 2015-10-08
Enrollment: 66
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: SUPPORTIVE_CARE

Brief summary: This study is a preliminary research aimed to compare the feasibility and effectiveness of motivational interview (MI), Personalized text messages (TM) and usual care for outpatients, with focus on smoking cessation as the main outcome. Smokers patients have received brief interventions and nicotine replacement therapy during the hospitalization. After discharge smokers were allocated into a intervention or control arm. In the first and third months, after randomization, the patients were contact to smoke abstinence assessment.

Detailed description: Background: Research suggests that smokers who receive treatment inside the hospital and post-discharge follow up for at least a month are more likely to quit smoking than those who didn't receive any intervention. The current challenge is to know the best way to support post-discharge quit attempts in the Brazilian context. Objective: The aim of this study was to compare the feasibility and effectiveness of motivational interview (MI) plus Personalized text messages (TM) and usual care for support smoking cessation among post-discharge patients. Methods: All patients admitted to the University Hospital of Juiz de Fora (HU/UFJF), between 06/2015 to 01/2016, were asked about the cigarettes consumption in the last 30 days. Smokers patients received brief interventions and nicotine replacement therapy during the hospitalization. After hospitalization discharge smokers were allocated into a intervention or control arm. The intervention group received a singular MI session by phone and mobile phone TM twice a day during eight or fifteen days. The control group received only usual care available inside the hospital. Results: At the first and third months, after randomization, the patients were contacted for smoke abstinence assessment.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Aged 18 years or older
* Smoked cigarettes in the last 30 days (even a puff)
* Have own mobile phone
* Have received at least one text message in the last year
* Have no problem with the mobile phone signal

Exclusion Criteria:

* Don't have a mobile phone
* Unstable cognitive or physical condition
* Physical or breath contact restrictions
* Intensive care units

Primary outcomes:
measure: Self Reported Smoking Abstinence
timeFrame: Smoking abstinence at the first month after randomization
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Daily Cigarettes Consumption at 3 Months Among Continuing Smokers
timeFrame: At the third month after randomization
measure: Self Reported Seek for Specialized Tobacco Treatment
timeFrame: at the third month after randomization
measure: Self Reported Smoking Abstinence
timeFrame: Smoking abstinence at the third month after randomization
measure: Carbon Monoxide Verified Smoking Abstinence
timeFrame: At third-month follow up
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Juiz de Fora
country: Brazil
facility: University Federal Hospital of Juiz de Fora
state: Minas Gerais
Study officials:
affiliation: Federal University of Juiz de Fora
name: Erica Cruvinel, MD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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