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The Impact of Brief Motivational Counseling for Smoking Cessation in an Italian Emergency Department: a Randomized Controlled Trial

NCT04107753 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 480

Last updated 2019-12-24

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Smoke is still a significant Public Health problem. The Emergency Departments (EDs) could be the ideal setting to set up smoke cessation interventions (high prevalence of smoking patient compared to the general population). The structured brief counseling 5As based (ask, advice, asses, assist, arrange) is an effective Public Health intervention when performed by the General Practitioners. Still not clear is its feasibility and effectiveness in the ED setting. Aim of the study. To assess the feasibility and effectiveness of the 5As based counselling in the University ED of Novara compared to the "usual care".

Conditions

  • Smoking Habit

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Brief counseling based on the 5As model

It is a structured brief counselling perfomed by nurse who takes clinical care of the patient and it is performed as follow: 1. ASK: every patient should be asked whether he/she is or is not a smoker; 2. ADVICE: the patient is advised to quit in a strong, clear and personalized way; 3. ASSESS: the patient is asked if he/she would like to quit and the strenght of his/her dependence is assessed. 4. ASSIST: The smoker interested in quitting are assisted in their attempts, for example by helping them to define a quit date, by advising them about strategies against withdrawal symptoms and by providing them information material; patients are asked whether they want to be contacted by the CTT. 5. ARRANGE: this step is only addressed to the patients who have started a treatment in the CTT and is expected to prevent or treat eventual relapses.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Lega Italiana per la Lotta contro i Tumori

    collaborator OTHER

  • Università degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale Amedeo Avogadro

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
OTHER
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2017-04-01
Primary Completion
2019-06-01
Completion
2019-07-28

Countries

  • Italy

Study Locations

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