Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Smoking Cessation in the Primary Care Setting (ACT)

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Smoking Cessation

Treatments: Other: Control; Behavioral: Acceptance and Commitment Therapy

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01652508

HHSRF9101421

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the feasibility and potential efficacy of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) in enhancing smoking cessation among attendees in primary healthcare settings.

Full description

The program is preventive and corrective, and carries brief messages by approaching and influencing services attendees who may not be able to reach in traditional reactive approach method of service users. Those traditional approaches are, for example, quitline and smoking cessation clinic. It can therefore benefit a larger population at low cost.

Enrollment: 156 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• aged 18 years and older
• currently smoking at least one cigarette per day in the past 30 days
• Hong Kong residents
• able to communicate in Cantonese
• currently residing in Hong Kong and expecting to continue to do so for the next 6 months
• have access to a telephone

Exclusion criteria

• currently undergoing another smoking cessation or similar program

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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156 participants in 2 patient groups, including a placebo group

Control

Placebo Comparator group

Description:

Participants are given printed self-help leaflet on smoking cessation developed by the Department of Health, Hong Kong.

Treatment:

Other: Control

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy

Experimental group

Description:

All participants are given a self-help leaflet on smoking cessation. Participants are also given an initial session of face-to-face ACT at a primary health service clinic. In addition, two more subsequent ACT sessions are provided by telephone at one week and one month after the initial intervention.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Acceptance and Commitment Therapy