Tobacco Assessment and Intervention With Low-Income Persons Living With HIV-AIDS (PLWHA) in Community-Based AIDS Service Organizations

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK)

Status: Completed

Conditions: AIDS; HIV; Tobacco Cessation

Treatments: Behavioral: Treatment as usual; Behavioral: AIR (Aspirations, Inspiration, Respiration)

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01482923

11-173

Details and patient eligibility

About

"A treatment session especially for PLWHA to help them discuss and take action about their smoking may be useful."

Enrollment: 65 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Age 18 years or older as per self-report;
• English speaking;
• New York or New Jersey State resident;
• HIV-positive serostatus direct referral from a CAB agency staff member, which verifies that the person is an HIV+ client, or by as verified by presentation of medical evidence (i.e.,confirmatory test result, ARV prescription, M11Q form, or lab results);
• Self-report of smoking > or = to 20 cigarettes (> or = to one pack) within the prior 7 days;
• To confirm smoking status, the carbon monoxide alveolar breath test must be > or = to 10 ppm;
• To confirm cognitive functioning, score on the in-person BLESSED Exam must be < or = to 10;
• Low income, defined by either: 1) Proof of Medicaid insurance, or 2) Self-report of income at 50% or below median income for New York State for New York State residents, or if a New Jersey resident, at or below 50% median income for New Jersey

Exclusion criteria

• Presence of current severe psychopathology that would limit study participation (e.g., unstable schizophrenia, bipolar disorder recent changes to medication noncompliance);
• Currently receiving smoking cessation treatment elsewhere.

Trial design

65 participants in 2 patient groups

Treatment As Usual (TAU)

Description:

This study is a pilot intervention trial examining the feasibility of a motivational smoking cessation intervention using respiratory biomarker feedback in low income PLWHA. The plan is to recruit a pilot sample of 50 eligible and consented participants, randomized at a 1:1 ratio into either the Treatment As Usual (TAU) condition or the experimental (Aspiration, Inspiration Respiration, or AIR) intervention condition.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Treatment as usual

Aspiration, Inspiration Respiration, or AIR

Description:

This study is a pilot intervention trial examining the feasibility of a motivational smoking cessation intervention using respiratory biomarker feedback in low income PLWHA. The plan is to recruit a pilot sample of 50 eligible and consented participants, randomized at a 1:1 ratio into either the Treatment As Usual (TAU) condition or the experimental (Aspiration, Inspiration Respiration, or AIR) intervention condition.

Treatment:

Behavioral: AIR (Aspirations, Inspiration, Respiration)