Clinical trial NCT02758028: Helping Youth Smokers Stop Smoking Through the Youth Quitline Programme
Official title: Helping Youth Smokers Stop Smoking Through the Youth Quitline Programme
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: UNKNOWN
Phase: NA
Conditions: Smoking Cessation
Keywords: Youth
Adventure-based training
WhatsApp messages
Lead sponsor: The University of Hong Kong
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2016-05-02
Enrollment: 300
Sex: ALL
Maximum age (years): 25
Standard ages: CHILD
ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: NA
Intervention model: SINGLE_GROUP
Primary purpose: HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH

Brief summary: The aims of the present study are:

1. To raise the awareness of smoking cessation service among youth smokers in Hong Kong;
2. To provide smoking cessation quitline service to youth smokers; and
3. To provide training to teenagers as peer smoking cessation counsellors.
4. To examine the effectiveness of adventure-based training and WhatsApp messages in helping youth smokers to quit

Detailed description: In Hong Kong, the demand of smoking cessation service of Youth was increasing in the past 10 years, the first youth-oriented smoking cessation hotline "Youth Quitline" was established in 2005. From August 2005 to July 2016, "Youth Quitline" has received over 9,267 telephone inquiries and provided telephone smoking cessation counselling for 1,952 youth smokers.

Youth smokers are recruited using the reactive and proactive strategies. The operation hours of Quitline service are weekdays from 17:00 to 21:00 and on weekends from 14:00 to 20:00. A questionnaire asking the smoking status, reason of smoking, dependency level, knowledge, attitude and practice of smoking or quitting at baseline, the perceived barriers of the smokers and the use of other tobacco products were designed to assess the status of participants, brief counselling with the use of motivational intervention approach is delivered during the phone call.

Telephone counseling at 1-week, 1-month, 3-month, 6-month, 9-month, 12-month and follow-up at 24-month are conducted with the participants to assess their smoking status (by questionnaire) and reinforce intervention (encourage quitting and providing quitting tips). Self-reported quitters who have quitted smoking for at least 7 days at 6-month are invited to perform saliva cotinine test (using NicAlert strip) plus exhaled carbon monoxide text to validate the smoking status.

A qualitative interview will be conducted to investigate the use of other tobacco products of the Youth Quitline participants, and aimed to find out their smoking patterns and feelings of using these products, and how these products might affect quitting or smoking, and how the protest activates influence the smoking behaviors among the youth smokers.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Hong Kong resident aged 25 or below
* Able to communicate in Chinese (Cantonese)
* Smoked in the past 30 days

Exclusion Criteria:

* Have difficulty to communicate via telephone
* Having queries irrelevant to tobacco control

Primary outcomes:
measure: 7-days point prevalence smoking abstinence at 6-month
timeFrame: 6-month follow-up
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Bio-chemical validated smoking abstinence at 6-month
timeFrame: 6-month follow-up
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Hong Kong
country: China
facility: The University of Hong Kong
Study officials:
affiliation: The University of Hong Kong
name: Ho-Cheung Li, PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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