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Deliver an Evidence-based Smoking Cessation Intervention for Smokers Attending A&E Departments in Hong Kong

NCT03818360 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 1603

Last updated 2023-08-03

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Summary

This project aims to deliver an evidence-based smoking cessation intervention comprising the provision of brief cessation advice to smokers attending emergency departments and active referral to existing smoking cessation services. The objectives are as follows:

1. To promote this evidence-based project to emergency departments in various hospitals under the Hospital Authority
2. To construct a network with non-governmental organisations (NGOs) to provide smoking cessation services
3. To train healthcare professionals to use the AWARD model to deliver brief cessation advice to smokers
4. To deliver brief cessation advice via healthcare professionals and actively refer smokers to existing smoking cessation services.

Conditions

  • Smoking
  • Smoking Cessation
  • Evidence-Based Nursing
  • Emergency Service, Hospital

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

an evidence-based smoking cessation intervention comprising brief advice plus active referrals

The trained healthcare professionals will be encouraged to deliver brief smoking cessation advice based on the AWARD model to smokers who attend emergency departments and are triaged as semi-urgent or non-urgent. The trained healthcare professionals will ask the smokers their smoking history, then deliver the warning message to the smokers. If the smokers refuse to quit immediately, the trained healthcare professionals will advise them to reduce the number of cigarettes smoked per day, with the goal of complete cessation within 6 months. The healthcare professionals will then actively refer smokers to the chosen service provider within 1 week of recruitment. Smokers will receive proactive telephone calls from the service providers, receive a leaflet about the health-related hazards of smoking and benefits of quitting, and a pocket-sized information card containing brief information about the existing smoking cessation services in Hong Kong.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Chinese University of Hong Kong

    collaborator OTHER

  • The University of Hong Kong

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Ho Cheung William Li, PhD · Chinese University of Hong Kong

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2019-08-13
Primary Completion
2023-02-28
Completion
2023-02-28

Countries

  • Hong Kong

Study Locations

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