Clinical trial NCT00588107: A Web Site and Print Materials Intervention for Smoking Intervention for Childhood and Young Adult Cancer Survivors
Official title: Partnership for Health: A Web-Based Smoking Intervention For Cancer Survivors
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Cancer
Keywords: Cancer
Smoker
Web based intervention
Partnership for Health
Cancer Survivors
Lead sponsor: Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: National Cancer Institute (NCI)
name: St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
name: Princess Margaret Hospital, Canada
name: The Hospital for Sick Children
name: University of Massachusetts, Amherst
First posted: 2008-01-08
Enrollment: 374
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Maximum age (years): 55
Standard ages: ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH

Brief summary: The purpose of this study was to compare two different ways of helping people who have had childhood cancer, leukemia, tumors or similar illnesses learn health information and information about trying to quit smoking. All participants received materials in the mail about their health, survivorship, and smoking. Some participants were also invited to use a website. The goal of the study was to see which is a better way to get information about health issues, survivorship, and smoking.

Detailed description: The study was a randomized controlled trial with two groups. It was designed to demonstrate the efficacy and cost-effectiveness of a Web-based format of the PFH intervention, compared to a written Materials control condition. The study was conducted among childhood and young adult cancer survivors, who smoke, at four survivor clinics. Participants in both conditions received access to pharmacotherapy at no cost. Participants in the Web condition received access to an interactive Web site that focuses on survivorship, health, and smoking.

Participants in the Web condition received access to an interactive Web site that focuses on survivorship, health, and smoking. Participants in the Materials control group received tailored and targeted print materials.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Have been diagnosed with cancer before age 35
* Currently be ≥ 18 years of age and ≤ 55 years of age
* 2 or more years out of cancer treatment
* Be mentally capable of providing informed consent
* Be reachable by telephone for screening and survey completion
* Be a current smoker (defined as having taken one puff of a cigarette in the last 30 days)
* Fluent in English

Exclusion Criteria:

* Currently undergoing active treatment for cancer

Primary outcomes:
measure: The primary outcome is smoking cessation
timeFrame: 15 months post BL
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Secondary outcome: cost-effectiveness, intervention dose delivered, reach, impact, quit attempts, motivation to quit, and use of pharmacotherapy
timeFrame: 15 months post BL
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Boston
country: United States
facility: DFCI
state: Massachusetts
Study officials:
affiliation: Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
name: Karen M Emmons, PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
References:
citation: de Moor JS, Puleo E, Ford JS, Greenberg M, Hodgson DC, Tyc VL, Ostroff J, Diller LR, Levy AG, Sprunck-Harrild K, Emmons KM. Disseminating a smoking cessation intervention to childhood and young adult cancer survivors: baseline characteristics and study design of the partnership for health-2 study. BMC Cancer. 2011 May 11;11:165. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-11-165.
citation: Nagler RH, Puleo E, Sprunck-Harrild K, Emmons KM. Internet use among childhood and young adult cancer survivors who smoke: implications for cessation interventions. Cancer Causes Control. 2012 Apr;23(4):647-52. doi: 10.1007/s10552-012-9926-9. Epub 2012 Feb 28.
citation: Tyc VL, Puleo E, Emmons K, de Moor JS, Ford JS. Smoking Restrictions Among Households of Childhood and Young Adult Cancer Survivors: Implications for Tobacco Control Efforts. J Adolesc Young Adult Oncol. 2013 Mar;2(1):17-24. doi: 10.1089/jayao.2012.0019.
citation: Nagler RH, Puleo E, Sprunck-Harrild K, Viswanath K, Emmons KM. Health media use among childhood and young adult cancer survivors who smoke. Support Care Cancer. 2014 Sep;22(9):2497-507. doi: 10.1007/s00520-014-2236-x. Epub 2014 Apr 13.
citation: Ford JS, Puleo E, Sprunck-Harrild K, deMoor J, Emmons KM. Perceptions of risk among childhood and young adult cancer survivors who smoke. Support Care Cancer. 2014 Aug;22(8):2207-17. doi: 10.1007/s00520-014-2165-8.
citation: Emmons KM, Sprunck-Harrild K, Puleo E, de Moor J. Provider advice about smoking cessation and pharmacotherapy among cancer survivors who smoke: practice guidelines are not translating. Transl Behav Med. 2013 Jun;3(2):211-7. doi: 10.1007/s13142-013-0202-7.
citation: Emmons KM, Puleo E, Sprunck-Harrild K, Ford J, Ostroff JS, Hodgson D, Greenberg M, Diller L, de Moor J, Tyc V. Partnership for health-2, a web-based versus print smoking cessation intervention for childhood and young adult cancer survivors: randomized comparative effectiveness study. J Med Internet Res. 2013 Nov 5;15(11):e218. doi: 10.2196/jmir.2533.