Decision Aid for Cigarette Smokers Undergoing Surgery

Mayo Clinic

Status and phase: Completed; Phase 3

Conditions: Tobacco Abuse

Treatments: Behavioral: Control; Behavioral: Control intervention; Behavioral: Decision Aid

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01575119

11-009150

Details and patient eligibility

About

Smokers have three choices when faced with surgery: keep smoking, quit for a short time around surgery or quit for good. In the first specific aim, a decision aid was designed to help facilitate the discussion of these choices between smokers and healthcare providers. This second aim will test whether this decision aid improves the decisional quality compared with standard methods used to discuss perioperative smoking.

Enrollment: 130 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Current cigarette smoker
• Scheduled to undergo elective surgery at Mayo Clinic Rochester
• Age 18 years or older
• Able to fully participate in all study aspects

Exclusion criteria

• Unavailable for telephone follow-up

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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130 participants in 4 patient groups

In-patient surgery

Experimental group

Description:

Decision Aid tool is presented by respiratory therapist, prompting a discussion with the provider (physician or physician assistant)about smoking around time of surgery

Treatment:

Behavioral: Decision Aid

Behavioral: Decision Aid

In-patient

Active Comparator group

Description:

Standard of care information, including distributing patient education brochure, to provide information regarding perioperative smoking

Treatment:

Behavioral: Control intervention

Out-patient surgery

Experimental group

Description:

Decision Aid tool is presented by respiratory therapist, prompting a discussion with the provider (physician or physician assistant)about smoking around time of surgery

Treatment:

Behavioral: Decision Aid

Behavioral: Decision Aid

Out-patient

Active Comparator group

Description:

Standard of care information, including distributing a patient education brochure, to provide information regarding perioperative smoking

Treatment:

Behavioral: Control