Mumbai Worksite Tobacco Control Study

President and Fellows of Harvard College

Status: Completed

Conditions: Tobacco Use Cessation

Treatments: Behavioral: Delayed Intervention; Behavioral: Intervention Program

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; NIH

Identifiers

NCT01841879

R01CA140304 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

Details and patient eligibility

About

The investigators are designing and testing the effectiveness of an integrated tobacco control and occupational health (OH) intervention aimed at promoting tobacco cessation among workers and supporting the adoption, implementation, and enforcement of tobacco control policies in 20 manufacturing worksites in the greater Mumbai region of India.

Full description

Through 6 health education events at the worksites, blue-collar workers (who face dual health risks through their exposures to occupational hazards and their high rates of tobacco use) will gain the knowledge, skills, and social support needed to quit tobacco use.

Simultaneously, management will receive OH and tobacco policy consultations to help build a healthy and safe work environment, where workers' hazardous exposures are reduced.

Enrollment: 6,880 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Manufacturing worksites located in the Mumbai, Thane, or Raigad districts of India
• Employ at least 60% production workers/40% administrative staff OR at employ at least 200 production workers on staff. NOTE: We are defining "workers" as anyone who is on the company roster, regardless of whether they're permanent or contractual
• Companies must be autonomous decision-makers and allow us to function at their worksite
• Companies must be willing to provide us with a current employee roster

Exclusion criteria

• Employees do not speak English, Hindi, or Marathi

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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6,880 participants in 2 patient groups

Intervention Program

Experimental group

Description:

Receives the full Healthy, Safe, and Tobacco-Free Worksites intervention

Treatment:

Behavioral: Intervention Program

Delayed Intervention Control

Other group

Description:

Receives abbreviated 2-month delayed intervention designed to provide employees with knowledge and skills to quit tobacco after final data collection time point, as well as one non-tobacco event in between data collection points.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Delayed Intervention