Effectiveness of Spirometry as a Motivational Tool to Quit Smoking (ESPIMOAT)

Basque Health Service

Status: Completed

Conditions: COPD; Smoking Cessation

Treatments: Behavioral: Spirometry and a brief advice to quit smoking; Behavioral: Brief advice to quit smoking

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01821885

KRONIK11/071 - EJGV 2011111013 (Other Identifier)

2011111013

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of the study is to asses the efficacy of the spirometry and a minimal smoking cessation counselling intervention to quit smoking after a year in patients older than 40 years, smokers of more than 10 packs-year and without a chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) diagnosis.

Enrollment: 335 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 40 to 80 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Active smokers over 40 years and more than 10 pack-years

Exclusion criteria

• Previous diagnosis of respiratory disease (asthma, COPD, interstitial lung disease) that cause alteration of spirometric pattern.
• Patients with limitations in performing spirometry
• Age greater than 80 years
• Institutionalized patients
• Patients with a life expectancy less than 1 year
• Spirometry in the past 2 years

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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335 participants in 2 patient groups

Spirometry and a brief advice to quit smoking

Experimental group

Description:

Intervention group: The intervention consists of completing a questionnaire and undergo spirometry with bronchodilator test by a trained nurse. Later, the patients receives a brief advice to quit smoking and a report of the spirometry results by their family doctor.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Spirometry and a brief advice to quit smoking

Brief advice to quit smoking

Active Comparator group

Description:

Control group: Patients in the control group complete a questionnaire by a nurse and then receive a brief advice to quit smoking by their family doctor.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Brief advice to quit smoking