Feasibility, Acceptability and Fidelity of Integrating a Navigation Intervention Into Tobacco Treatment Program

Temple University Health System (TUHS)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Cancer

Treatments: Behavioral: Adjuvant Patient Navigation for Tobacco Treatment

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT07072312

22-1011

Details and patient eligibility

About

Patient Navigation is being included as part of a tobacco treatment program for cancer patients to help patients overcome barriers to quitting.

Full description

The primary objective of this prospective, interventional pilot study is to assess the feasibility, acceptability and fidelity of a navigation intervention embedded into the clinical Tobacco Treatment Program.

The investigators will employ a pre-post design with two cohorts (30 to the pre-intervention, and 90 to the intervention, respectively) to address the specific aims of the study.

Enrollment: 93 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

1. Patients with a cancer diagnosis. Patients may be undergoing active therapy or may have completed treatment.
2. English speaking.
3. Age > 18 years.
4. Active tobacco cigarette user, defined as having smoked a cigarette within the 30 days prior to enrollment.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Sequential Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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93 participants in 1 patient group

Patient Navigation

Experimental group

Description:

Participants receive patient navigation after their first and second tobacco treatment visits.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Adjuvant Patient Navigation for Tobacco Treatment