Proactive Health Intervention for Tobacco Users (Get PHIT)

Kaiser Permanente536 enrolled

Overview

The goal of this study is to understand how information about smokers' health risks affects their attitudes, mood, and behavior.

The current study will test a community-based, tobacco intervention. The project will compare the effects of a proactive, personally-tailored, biologically-based motivational intervention to those of a proactive, generic motivational intervention for smoking cessation. The biologically-based motivational treatment will include feedback on participants' carbon monoxide (CO) exposure (expired CO and estimated carboxyhemoglobin levels), pulmonary functioning assessed via spirometry, and self-reported smoking-related symptoms. All participants will be given equal access to action-oriented treatment.

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

TREATMENT

Masking

NONE

Enrollment

536

Conditions

Smoking

Interventions

motivational counselingBEHAVIORAL

behavioral motivational counselling

placeboBEHAVIORAL

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 18 Years

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: * 18 years old, * smoke greater than or equal to 15 cigarettes a day, * have an expired CO level greater than or equal to 10 ppm, * are not currently being treated for smoking cessation, * can read and write in English, * provide contact information, * agree to the study requirements, * have no medical contraindications for spirometry assessment, * and no an obvious cognitive or physical impairment that would preclude their ability to comprehend or fully participate in the study. Exclusion Criteria: \-

Locations (1)

Group Health Cooperative

Seattle, Washington, United States

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Motivation to quit smoking, utilization of available resources, smoking cessation rate

Time frame: 1 year

Secondary Outcomes

Measurement of emotional distress, and mediators/moderators of primary outcomes

Time frame: 1 year

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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