Community-Centered eHealth Smoking Cessation Intervention(CCeSCI)

Summary

Recent findings regarding why Chinese male smokers are reluctant to quit have offered insight for a possible new solution. Consistent with the Cognitive Dissonance Theory, "smoking rationalization beliefs" are a set of beliefs by smokers to rationalize their smoking behavior and avoid quitting. These beliefs have been well studied by global researchers, and a "smoking rationalization beliefs" scale was recently developed and validated for Chinese male smokers. The six dimensions of these beliefs are: smoking functional beliefs, risk generalization beliefs, social acceptability beliefs, safe smoking beliefs, self-exempting beliefs, and quitting is harmful beliefs. Studies on smoking rationalization in China have primarily been observational. Investigators propose to develop a Community-Centered eHealth Smoking Cessation Intervention (CCeSCI). The trinity of CCeSCI are the triangular unity of "smoking rationalization beliefs" framework, the non-physician community workers, and the eHealth technologies. The latter two were previously proven effective in interventional studies (including three conducted by the PI) but not yet widely used in smoking cessation. With the adoption of smoking rationalization beliefs framework aiming to address the cognitive causes of phycological addition to smoking and supported by the community-based behavioral interventions and the use of eHealth, CCeSCI is designed to overcome previous challenges with the principles of people-centeredness, convenience, and personalization.

Conditions

• Smoking Cessation
• Lifestyle, Healthy

Interventions

OTHER

Community-Centered eHealth Smoking Cessation Intervention (CCeSCI)

We will equip CCeSCI with both core eHealth features and provider-side intervention. Patients assigned to the intervention group will receive a series of online interactive and personalization technologies, including an algorithm-based video curriculum with auto-texting, backstage monitoring system etc. Besides, the patients will also have the face-to-face meetings with community health workers. Provider-side intervention includes training for community workers, WeChat group discussion, and performance-based incentives. The training aims to provide essential skills for community workers so that they can provide face-to-face meetings with smokers during the first 3 months of quitting to prevent or revert relapse in a timely and proactive manner.

OTHER

Traditional "smoking is harmful" education

In the control group, the participants will receive traditional "smoking is harmful" education video, which is recorded by the clinical physicians.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Duke Kunshan University

  lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

PREVENTION

Masking

SINGLE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age

25 Years

Max Age

64 Years

Sex

MALE

Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2023-03-13

Primary Completion

2023-05-31

Completion

2023-06-30

Countries

• China

Study Locations