The Effectiveness of Mindfulness-based Intervention on Smoking Cessation

Chung Shan Medical University

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Smoking Cessation

Treatments: Behavioral: Physical fitness intervention; Behavioral: Mindfulness-based Intervention

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03480113

CS16175

Details and patient eligibility

About

The present study will carry out a workplace health promotion via MBI to help smoking workers to quit smoking.

Full description

The present study will carry out a workplace health promotion via MBI to help smoking workers to quit smoking. The study will adopt a longitudinal research design with randomized quasi-experimental trial. The smoking workers will recruited and be randomly assigned to Group A (one lesson of health education on smoking cessation and six lessons of MBI) or Group B (one lesson of health education on smoking cessation and six lessons of physical fitness). There will be 50 participants in each group. Data will be collected five times.

Enrollment: 100 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 20 to 65 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• volunteered employees with heavy smoker
• Full-time paid workers

Exclusion criteria

• Age < 20y or > 65y
• Part-time workers
• The workers are not willing to take part in the study

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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100 participants in 2 patient groups

Mindfulness-based Intervention

Experimental group

Description:

1 session of health education regrading the harms from smoking and 6 sessions of Mindfulness-based intervention, 1 hour each session.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Mindfulness-based Intervention

Physical Fitness intervention

Active Comparator group

Description:

1 session of health education regrading the harms from smoking and 6 sessions of physical fitness and stretch exercise, 1 hour each session.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Physical fitness intervention