Path2Quit Tobacco Intervention For African Americans

Case Comprehensive Cancer Center (Case CCC)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Smoking, Tobacco; Smoking Cessation

Treatments: Behavioral: SmokeFreeText; Behavioral: Path2Quit

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03524482

CASE1Y18

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this research is to study a smoking cessation program for adult smokers in Northeast Ohio. The study will also look at how different people respond to the program.

The study includes completing surveys and receiving text messages to help participants become tobacco free.

Full description

OBJECTIVES Specific Aim 1: Translate a culturally specific video-based tobacco use intervention into a scalable mobile health (mhealth) format.

Specific Aim 2: Conduct a pilot study of the video-text intervention.

Study Design:

2-arm semi-pragmatic randomized design among current tobacco users

Cuyahoga Metropolitan Housing Authority residents will be randomly assigned to receive (1) the newly translated Path2Quit or (2) SmokeFreeText (NCI's publicly available, standard text messaging program) combined with brief behavioral counseling session plus 2 weeks of nicotine replacement therapy (NRT). Primary outcomes will include intervention evaluations (content and format), acceptability, coping strategies, engagement, and NRT adherence. Secondary variables will include 24-hour quit attempts and biochemically verified tobacco use abstinence at the 1-month follow-up. Exploratory mediational analyses will examine the roles of urban hassles, acculturation, neighborhood environment, ethnic discrimination, and psychological distress in intervention effects.

Enrollment: 119 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Self-identify as African American
• Either smoke at least 1 cigarettes/day or have a carbon monoxide (CO) reading of at least 4 ppm
• Consistent with SmokefreeTXT, be willing to set a quit date within the next 14 days.
• Recruited from Cleveland metropolitan housing authority or who report low income based on federal guidelines

Exclusion criteria

• Does not meet all of the above inclusion criteria

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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119 participants in 2 patient groups

Path2Quit

Experimental group

Description:

Culturally specific text message intervention

Treatment:

Behavioral: Path2Quit

SmokeFreeText

Active Comparator group

Description:

The National Cancer Institute's publicly available, standard text messaging program for tobacco cessation

Treatment:

Behavioral: SmokeFreeText