Evaluating and Improving the Sustainability of State-level Tobacco Control Programs in the United States

The Washington University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Program Sustainability; Tobacco Use

Treatments: Behavioral: Program Sustainability Action Planning Model and Training Curricula

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; NIH

Identifiers

NCT03598114

R01CA203844 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

201801196

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to empirically develop, test, and disseminate sustainability training to improve the institutionalization of evidence-based state tobacco control (TC) programs, and thus, tobacco-related health outcomes.

Full description

This study defines program sustainability as the ability to maintain programming and its benefits over time.

The project builds upon the empirically-developed Program Sustainability Action Planning Model and Training Curricula. The training will incorporate experiential learning methods and includes: action planning workshops, development of action plans with measurable objectives to foster institutional changes, and technical assistance. The goal is to demonstrate change in sustainability outcomes in states who receive the Program Sustainability Action Planning Training compared to states that do not. After conclusion of the study, the sustainability training curriculum will be disseminated to all participating state TC programs. Additionally, the curriculum will be adapted for the use by any public health program in need of building sustainability capacity.

Enrollment: 255 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• All participants will be non-institutionalized adults ages 18 and older.

Exclusion criteria

• Participants must be involved in their state's tobacco control program and must be selected by their state's Program Manager to participate.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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255 participants in 2 patient groups

Program Sustainability Training

Experimental group

Description:

* Selected publicly funded tobacco control programs receive the intervention in the form of custom training curricula designed to identify and enable sustainable tobacco control programming at a state-organizational level. Sustainability is assessed at t=12 months and 1=24 months to capture potential impact of the training and curricula. * The intervention group will receive a follow-up survey inviting them to evaluate the training and their progress on executing their sustainability plan. The intervention group will also receive a follow-up survey inviting them to evaluate the technical assistance they have received from the research team. Responses on neither follow-up survey impact participants standing in the study

Treatment:

Behavioral: Program Sustainability Action Planning Model and Training Curricula

Control Condition

No Intervention group

Description:

* In this condition, publicly funded tobacco control programs do not receive the designated program sustainability training and proceed with standard operations. Sustainability is assessed at t=12 months and t=24 months to compare against tobacco control programs receiving sustainability training * The control group will receive a follow-up survey inviting them to evaluate their progress on creating their sustainability plan. Responses on the follow-up survey do not impact participants' standing in the study