Building a Community-based Network to Promote Smoking Cessation

The University of Hong Kong (HKU)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Smoking

Treatments: Behavioral: A brief intervention

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02968199

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Details and patient eligibility

About

This study describes the development of a community-based network to promote smoking cessation among female smokers in Hong Kong.

Full description

There is growing concern about the use of tobacco among women in Hong Kong. Nevertheless, nearly all of them reported that they had not attended smoking cessation services provided by the government and other organizations, of which only 6.7% indicated that they would like to attend, demonstrating the need for population-based smoking cessation interventions targeting female smokers in Hong Kong. In response to the increased number of female smokers and their low usage rates of smoking cessation services, the first smoking cessation hotline for female smokers in Hong Kong was established in 2006 by the University of Hong Kong. The aim of this study was to describe the development of a community-based network to promote the smoking cessation hotline among female smokers in Hong Kong.

Enrollment: 457 patients

Sex: Female

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Female Hong Kong Chinese current smokers
• Aged 15 years or above
• Able to speak and understand Cantonese
• Willing to receive face-to-face or telephone counseling

Exclusion criteria

• Those who were participating in other smoking cessation programs or services

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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457 participants in 1 patient group

Referred women

Experimental group

Description:

A brief intervention based on the'5 A' model developed by the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research in the United States.

Treatment:

Behavioral: A brief intervention