Web-delivered Provider Intervention for Tobacco Control (QUIT-PRIMO)

University of Massachusetts, Worcester

Status: Completed

Conditions: Smoking Cessation

Treatments: Behavioral: Decide2Quit; Behavioral: Smoking Coach

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00797628

X071211009

NIH R01CA129091

Details and patient eligibility

About

This is a randomized control trial to determine the efficacy of a multi-modal intervention in improving smoking cessation processes of care and patient outcomes in community-based primary care practices. Our Overall Goal is to advance science related to the use and impact of the Internet in health services delivery, specifically smoking cessation, by targeting primary care clinical microsystems. A clinical microsystem is defined as the smallest functional healthcare unit. A clinical microsystem is not simply equivalent to a clinical team of doctors and nurses, but also the panel of patients cared for by the providers and the processes of care that are used.

Enrollment: 174 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 19+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Community based primary care practices who have:

  • Internet access in office
  • Sees 4 - 5 smokers per week

Exclusion criteria

• Practices with more than five providers

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Factorial Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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174 participants in 2 patient groups

Information Prescription

Experimental group

Description:

Providers will give usual care to patients who smoke and a paper prescription with the name and url of the "Smoking Coach" website. The smoking coach website is a tailored, public health intervention for smoking cessation.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Smoking Coach

QUIT-PRIMO

Experimental group

Description:

Providers will give usual care to patients who smoke and then refer patients to the online smoking cessation system electronically.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Decide2Quit