Tobacco-Focused Patient Navigation to Address Barriers to Utilization of Community-Based Smoking Cessation Services in Primary Care

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Minority Smokers

Treatments: Behavioral: Patient Navigator

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01678118

11-028 (Registry Identifier)

Details and patient eligibility

About

Patient navigators have been shown to assist people seeking cancer screening and other medical services. The purpose of this study is to see whether a patient navigator can link smokers to available community resources shown to help smokers quit smoking.

Enrollment: 16 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Age ≥ 18 years
• Self-reported current daily smoker, as verified with a portable alveolar carbon monoxide (CO) analyzer (24 hour point prevalence); CO levels ≥ 8 ppm.
• English and/or Spanish-speaking
• Referred to the navigation program by their primary care clinician
• At baseline, participants report at least thinking about quitting (i.e., Contemplation or Preparation stages of readiness to quit).

Exclusion criteria

• Serious, untreated psychiatric illness (e.g., schizophrenia,) or active substance abuse likely to preclude adherence to the protocol

Trial design

16 participants in 1 patient group

minority smokers

Description:

A single arm ABA design will be used to pilot a tobacco-focused patient navigation (TPN) intervention for low income, minority smokers.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Patient Navigator