A Family-Focused Intervention for Asian American Male Smokers

Summary

This project proposes two aims. The first aim is to evaluate the efficacy of a family-focused intervention in promoting smoking cessation in Chinese and Vietnamese male smokers using a 2-arm cluster randomized controlled trial with assessments at baseline, 6, and 12 months targeting 360 smoker-family dyads. Half of the participants will be assigned to the proposed intervention, and the remaining half will be assigned to an attention-control condition where they will receive education on healthy eating and physical activity. The second aim is to explore mediators to identify key psychosocial and behavioral processes that underlie how the intervention affects the processes of quitting and maintaining abstinence in Chinese and Vietnamese smokers.

Conditions

• Smoking Cessation
• Family
• Health Behavior

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Quit Smoking for a Healthy Family

The experimental/intervention study arm focuses on providing smoking cessation education and support through 2 LHW outreach small group educational sessions (4-5 weeks apart) and 2 individual follow-up telephone calls to smoker and family participants separately at 2-3 weeks after each group session for a total of 4 intervention contacts over 2 months. The LHW and dyads will choose the site of sessions, such as the LHW's or a participant's home, or LHW Agency's office. Each small group session will last 90 minutes, be interactive, and involve sharing personal stories, learning using a flip chart, and setting individual goals. Each telephone call will be 15- 20 minutes to reinforce progress and provide support.

BEHAVIORAL

Healthy Living

In this comparison arm, participants will receive the same number of contacts on the same schedule and in the same format (2 small group sessions and 2 telephone calls). The comparison LHWs will receive training about "Healthy Living" focusing on nutrition and physical activity education. Participants will also receive the Smoking Cessation Resource Handout.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• University of California, Davis

  collaborator OTHER

• Chinese Community Health Resource Center

  collaborator OTHER

• Immigrant Resettlement & Cultural Center

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• Vietnamese Voluntary Foundation, Inc.

  collaborator OTHER

• Southeast Asian Community Center

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)

  collaborator NIH

• University of California, San Francisco

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Janice Y 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

2015-05-01

Primary Completion

2019-04-30

Completion

2020-03-31

Countries

• United States

Study Locations