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Smoking Cessation for Veterans With Severe and Persistent Mental Illness

NCT00960375 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: PHASE2/PHASE3 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 179

Last updated 2015-08-18

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Summary

The investigators have developed an intervention called Behavioral Treatment of Smoking Cessation in SPMI (BTSCS), an innovative intervention that supplements pharmacotherapy and education with contingency management and a multifaceted behavioral group treatment program that lasts for three months (24 group meetings). BTSCS is designed to address the cognitive, motivational, and social support problems characteristic of people with SPMI.

The investigators propose to conduct a randomized trial for persons with SPMI that compares (1) BTSCS: a 6-month manualized smoking cessation program adapted from an effective substance abuse treatment program for this population to (2) StSST: a standard manualized smoking cessation program which reflects current best practices.

Conditions

  • Schizoaffective Disorder
  • Schizophrenia
  • Affective Psychosis, Bipolar
  • Affective Disorders, Psychotic

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

BTSCS

BTSCS lasts 3 months, includes two 60-minute group meetings per week (24 group meetings total), and is delivered in small groups of 4-8 participants run by a trained interventionist. BTSCS includes: (1) An individual motivational enhancement meeting during the first week of treatment to help participants think about individual reasons for smoking cessation; (2) Breath carbon monoxide monitoring and goal-setting at the beginning of each meeting; (3) Skills for reducing smoking; (4) Social Skills Training; (5) Education about the biology of SPMI and smoking and the physiological harm caused by smoking; (5) Relapse prevention training; (6) Education about and assistance with nicotine replacement therapy for participants who are interested in learning about and trying it.

BEHAVIORAL

StSST

The StSST program is adapted from a 9-session weekly smoking cessation group program developed at the Outpatient Research Program of the Maryland Psychiatric Research Center and designed for people with schizophrenia. In this study, the StSST program meet twice per week for 3 months (24 sessions total). Participants complete a breath carbon monoxide (CO) test at the start of each group. StSST groups provide education about smoking and support for quitting.

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • Melanie E Bennett · Baltimore VA Medical Center VA Maryland Health Care System, Baltimore, MD

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
75 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2010-04-30
Primary Completion
2014-03-31
Completion
2014-12-31

Countries

  • United States

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