A Multi-Media Approach to Partner Support in Smokeless Tobacco Cessation (UCare-ChewFree)

Oregon Research Institute

Status: Completed

Conditions: Tobacco Use Cessation

Treatments: Behavioral: Multimedia Support Intervention

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01885221

DA033422

Details and patient eligibility

About

In an earlier study, the investigators developed a guidebook that taught women supportive behaviors to help their husbands/partners quit smokeless tobacco. This study will create a website using the information in the guidebook, along with interactive features, videos, and forums. The investigators will then conduct a randomized trial comparing an intervention group (receiving website access and the printed guidebook) with a delayed treatment control condition, to learn if the support intervention can effectively teach women supportive behaviors and thereby increase their partners' smokeless tobacco cessation rates.

Enrollment: 1,100 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• being the wife or female domestic partner (living together) of a male who is a current user of ST products (snuff or chewing tobacco)
• interested in having him quit ST use
• willing to provide a phone number, mailing address, and e-mail address
• provides informed consent
• the woman and the chewer are both U.S. or Canadian residents age 18 or older
• the woman and the chewer are both able to read English
• the woman and the chewer are both able to access a computer

Exclusion criteria

• none

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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1,100 participants in 2 patient groups

Multimedia Support Intervention

Experimental group

Description:

(a) access to a website providing the content of our supporter guidebook, supplemented with interactive components, video elements, and a supporters' forum, and (b) a mailed copy of our supporter guidebook

Treatment:

Behavioral: Multimedia Support Intervention

Delayed Treatment Control

No Intervention group

Description:

Access to the Multimedia Intervention after participant completes the final follow-up assessment