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Treating Chinese Smokers With Interactive Expert System
This study has been completed.
Sponsors and Collaborators: University of California, San Francisco
National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
Information provided by: University of California, San Francisco
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00713895
  Purpose

The research study examined the feasibility, implementation, and efficacy of the interactive expert system intervention for smoking cessation in the Chinese American population.


Condition Intervention
Smoking Cessation
Behavioral: stage-based expert system
Behavioral: Standard self-help

MedlinePlus related topics: Quitting Smoking Smoking
Drug Information available for: BaseLine
U.S. FDA Resources
Study Type: Interventional
Study Design: Treatment, Randomized, Open Label, Active Control, Parallel Assignment
Official Title: Treating Chinese Smokers With Interactive Expert System

Further study details as provided by University of California, San Francisco:

Primary Outcome Measures:
  • self-report 7-day point prevalence abstinence of cigarette use [ Time Frame: 18 months ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]

Secondary Outcome Measures:
  • self-report of 24-hour quit attempt [ Time Frame: 18 months ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
  • smoking reduction from baseline [ Time Frame: 18 months ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]

Enrollment: 363
Study Start Date: August 2001
Study Completion Date: August 2005
Primary Completion Date: January 2004 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
Arms Assigned Interventions
1: Active Comparator
receive a standard self-help manual in Chinese and English of the participants' choice at baseline
Behavioral: Standard self-help
standard smoking cessation self-help manual
2: Experimental
receive an expert system intervention that included the Pathway-To-Change self-help manual and a series of 3 individualized feedback reports at baseline, 3, and 6 months.
Behavioral: stage-based expert system
an expert system intervention provided the Pathway-To-Change self-help manual and a series of 3 individualized feedback reports at baseline, 3, and 6 months.

Detailed Description:

The research study examines the feasibility, implementation, and efficacy of the interactive expert system intervention for smoking cessation in the Chinese American population. The primary specific aim of the proposed research is to test the following hypotheses: 1) Proactive recruitment approach will be more effective in recruiting smokers who are in precontemplation (no intent to quit smoking in the next 6 months) than a reactive approach. 2) Participants in the experimental condition receiving the interactive stage-matched expert system intervention plus a manual will be more likely to be abstinent at 12 and 18 than those in the control condition receiving a non-interactive standard manual. 3) Participants receiving the interactive expert system intervention will be more likely to report at least one quit attempt than those in the control condition at months 6, 12, and 18. 4) Participants receiving the interactive expert system intervention will be more likely to have a significant decrease in number of cigarettes smoked than those in the control condition at months 3, 6, 12, and 18. After the intervention adaptation and the pilot testing phase of study procedures, the study will achieve the above aims using a randomized trial targeting 400 Chinese American Smokers with follow-up assessments at 3, 6, 12, and 18 months after baseline.

  Eligibility

Ages Eligible for Study:   18 Years and older
Genders Eligible for Study:   Both
Accepts Healthy Volunteers:   Yes
Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

  • residents of the San Francisco Bay Area
  • age 18 or older
  • self-identified as Chinese in ethnicity
  • able to read English or Chinese
  • have smoked at least 100 cigarettes in their lifetime
  • currently smoke at least 5 cigarettes in the past 7 days

Exclusion Criteria:

  • currently engaging in other smoking cessation efforts.
  Contacts and Locations
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00713895

Locations
United States, California
UCSF Langley Porter
San Francisco, California, United States, 94143
Sponsors and Collaborators
University of California, San Francisco
Investigators
Principal Investigator: Janice Tsoh, PhD University of California, San Francisco
  More Information

Responsible Party: University of California San Francisco ( Janice Tsoh, PhD )
Study ID Numbers: 5K23DA000468, 5K23DA000468
Study First Received: July 9, 2008
Last Updated: July 9, 2008
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00713895  
Health Authority: United States: Institutional Review Board

Keywords provided by University of California, San Francisco:
smoking cessation
randomized trial
Asian
Chinese American
stages of change

Study placed in the following topic categories:
Smoking

ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on January 14, 2009