OCAST Cessation Study

N/ACompletedNCT01921439

University of Oklahoma152 enrolled

Overview

The long-term goal is to improve the quality of life of children and their parents who smoke tobacco by facilitating parental smoking cessation in a way that is easy to administer yet effective. We aim to accomplish this goal by administering an interactive computer-based program that will facilitate motivation and readiness to engage in smoking cessation by providing personalized feedback about the financial and health effects of the parent's smoking. We will compare the changes in motivation and readiness to quit smoking after the parent has taken the computer-based program and compare them to the changes in motivation and readiness to quit in parents who receive only information about the Oklahoma Tobacco Helpline. We will also measure salivary cotinine levels in both parents and children, to objectively measure changes in smoking habits and secondhand smoke exposure. Our hypothesis is that our computer-based program will cause a greater increase in motivation and confidence to quit smoking in the group that receives the customized feedback than the group that receives only information about the Tobacco Helpline. We also predict that both parent and child cotinine levels will show a greater decrease in the group randomized to receive personalized feedback.

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

OTHER

Masking

SINGLE

Enrollment

152

Conditions

Tobacco Smoking Behavior Cigarette Smoking Behavior

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 18 YearsMax age: 65 YearsHealthy volunteers:

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: * Parent or primary caregiver of a child patient at the OU Children's Physicians General Pediatrics clinics * Current cigarette user * Able to read study forms and verbally communicate with the study staff in English Exclusion Criteria: * Nonsmokers * Unable to read or speak English well enough to complete the survey and study tasks

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Self-Reported Readiness and Motivation to Quit Smoking

We will assess changes in self-reported readiness and motivation to quit smoking.

Time frame: Baseline, 1-month, 6-months, 12-months

Parent and Child Salivary Cotinine

We will assess change in parent and child salivary cotinine throughout the course of the study.

Time frame: Baseline, 1-month, 6-months, and 12-months

Change in self-reported cigarette use

We will assess changes in self-reported cigarette use throughout the study.

Time frame: baseline, 1-month, 6-months, and 12-months