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Promoting Women's Health: A Gender Specific Smoking Cessation Program for Female Smokers in Hong Kong

NCT03717662 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 480

Last updated 2020-12-21

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Summary

This project aims to publicize quitting among female smokers, and encourage and support those who want to quit by providing face-to-face and/or telephone counseling. The objectives are to:

1. Build up a Women Against Tobacco Taskforce (WATT) with woman volunteers from various organizations to promote quitting in female smokers, and to arouse public awareness of the effects of smoking on sexual, reproductive and child health, and other diseases among women.
2. Conduct a survey among the women volunteers and staff of the women's organization to ascertain their learning needs, knowledge, attitudes, and practice of tobacco control and smoking cessation, and to identify interested participants to join the smoking cessation training program.
3. Design and deliver a smoking cessation counseling training program (based on the learning needs identified), to equip women volunteers with the knowledge and skills in smoking cessation.
4. Develop and evaluate a gender-specific smoking cessation program to help female smokers to reduce and quit smoking.
5. Promote women's health and quality of life, and reduce the life-long morbidity and mortality of female smokers in the long term.
6. Examine the long term (3-year) impact of a gender-specific smoking cessation program on the smoking behaviors of female smokers.
7. Examine another long-term (6-year) impact of a gender-specific smoking cessation program on the smoking behaviors of female smokers.
8. Ascertain the contributing factors in the rate of quitting, retention and relapse.
9. Investigate Hong Kong women smokers awareness and attitude to women quitline.

Conditions

  • Smoking Cessation

Interventions

DRUG

nicotine gum or nicotine patch

The project will provide intensive counseling at the Centre for Health Promotion (CHP) of HKU Department of Nursing Studies, female smokers who require more intensive counseling or advice on nicotine replacement therapy, upon referral from the women's organizations and trained women counselors. The smokers will receive face-to-face (or telephone) counseling and a 1 week supply of Nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) (4 mg nicotine gum or 10 mg/ 15 mg nicotine patch) from the nurse counselor, and follow up calls at 1 week, 1-, 3-, 6-, 36- and 72-month post-intervention.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • The University of Hong Kong

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Ho-Cheung Li, PhD · The University of Hong Kong

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
15 Years
Sex
FEMALE
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2006-04-01
Primary Completion
2024-10-01
Completion
2024-11-30

Countries

  • China

Study Locations

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