Tobacco Assessment and Intervention With Low-Income Persons Living With HIV-AIDS (PLWHA) in Community-Based AIDS Service Organizations

Summary

"A treatment session especially for PLWHA to help them discuss and take action about their smoking may be useful."

Conditions

• Tobacco Cessation
• HIV
• AIDS

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Treatment as usual

Participants in the Treatment as Usual study arm will be provided with the following: 1) brief smoking cessation counseling as recommended in the Public Health Service treatment guidelines; 2) direct referral to the NY/NJ State Quitline; 3) a brochure that describes the Quitline services and provides contact information via telephone or internet; 4) a NY State brochure on HIV and smoking that identifies the specific risks of smoking for PLWHA; and 5) referral assistance to participants who present with untreated co-morbid conditions.

BEHAVIORAL

AIR (Aspirations, Inspiration, Respiration)

Participants in the Aspirations, Inspiration, and Respiration study arm will receive all of the components of Treatment as Usual along with these additional components: 1) a lung age test to determine the ability and functioning of their lungs; 2) a personal lung health report with their lung age, the CO level of their breath, and a summary of their respiratory symptom assessment; 3) a review of this personal lung health report with a study counselor, 4) motivational interviewing techniques guided by Self-Determination Theory concepts to explicitly elicit at least one life aspiration of the patient and encourage discussion of such aspirations using an autonomy-supportive approach.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Gay Men's Health Crisis

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• The City College of New York

  collaborator OTHER

• AIDS Center of Queens County

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• Bronx AIDS Services

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• North Jersey Community Research Initiative

  collaborator OTHER

• Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Jamie Ostroff, PhD · Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Eligibility

Min Age

18 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2011-11-22

Primary Completion

2019-10-21

Completion

2019-10-21

Countries

• United States

Study Locations