Provision of Service of a YQL Programme For Youth Smokers

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Mental Health Issue

Treatments: Behavioral: 5A's model

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05148520

YQL

Details and patient eligibility

About

This project is funded by Department of Health. We will run a quitline which provides telephone smoking cessation counseling to youth smokers aged 25 or below. After baseline counseling based on trans-theoretical model, follow-up counseling will be provided by trained counselors (i.e. nursing students or students from other healthrelated disciplines) at 1 week, 1, 3, 6, 9 and 12 months. It is expected that the quitline can assist youth smokers to quit smoking, thus saving the healthcare cost attributed to smoking in long-term.

Full description

This project will last for 15 months (from 1st Dec 2020 to 28th Feb 2022). Prior to commencement, a month will be spent on preparation, including setting up the quitline and website, designing and printing publicity materials, connecting with secondary and post-secondary schools and training peer counsellors. We will operate the quitline for 15 months and provide telephone counselling for eligible youth smokers. Self-reported quitters at 6-month follow-up will be invited for biochemical validation.

Enrollment: 400 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: Under 25 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Aged 25 or below
• Self-reported to smoke any types of tobacco products within the past 1 month
• Speak Cantonese and
• Provide verbal consent to counselling service.

Exclusion criteria

• have psychiatric disease
• and/or currently receive any smoking cessation intervention from other service providers

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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400 participants in 1 patient group

5A's model

Other group

Description:

The practice guideline emphasizes on the use of '5A's' model that contains five major steps in providing smoking cessation counselling. Specifically, our counsellors will take the following steps to provide telephone counselling for youth smokers who are ready to quit smoking

Treatment:

Behavioral: 5A's model