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Expert System and Family Assisted Interventions for Chinese Smokers

NCT00714467 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 1280

Last updated 2013-05-29

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Summary

In this study, we choose to specifically recruit Chinese, the largest ethnic group of the Asian and Pacific Islander community,2 as an initial step to increase our understanding of the role of family or supportive others in the process of smoking cessation among Asian Americans. We propose the following specific aims for the study:

1. Examine the effectiveness of proactive recruitment of Chinese smokers into a smoking cessation treatment program through their family or friends.
2. Test the efficacy of a family assisted intervention using the stages of change approach in promoting smoking cessation in the context of an expert system intervention.
3. Explore the role of supportive and non-supportive behaviors in relation to both short-term and long-term smoking cessation outcomes in the presence of the expert system intervention.

Conditions

  • Smoking Cessation

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Expert System Only

expert system intervention only to the smoker participants which includes a stage-based manual and a series of 3 individualized tailored feedback report at baseline, 3, and 6 months. The paired-supporters receive assessments only and no intervention.

BEHAVIORAL

Family Assisted

The smoker participants received an expert system intervention (same intervention for those in the Expert system intervention) which includes a stage-based manual and a series of 3 individualized tailored feedback report at baseline, 3, and 6 months. The paired-supporters will receive a a self-help booklet based on the Transtheoretical Model of Change (TTM) that will aim at teaching the supporters how to use the stages of change framework to apply different strategies that best match with smokers' readiness to quit smoking.

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • Janice Tsoh, PhD · University of California, San Francisco

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2004-08-31
Primary Completion
2008-12-31
Completion
2008-12-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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