The goals of the study are to develop a culturally and linguistically appropriate intervention to promote smoking cessation and reduce secondhand smoke exposure for Korean Americans using a family-based intervention approach targeting Korean Americans ages 18 and above in the greater San Francisco Bay Area, CA, and to evaluate efficacy of the proposed intervention. The study is a randomized control trial targeting a total of 8 lay health workers (LHW) and 48 dyads of a daily smoker and a partner who will attend intervention sessions together. The research question is: Can a family-based lay health worker outreach intervention promote smoking cessation and reduce SHS exposure among Korean Americans?
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
112
Quit Smoking For a Healthy Family - This is a family-based psycho-education intervention using lay health worker (LHW) outreach. LHW will be trained to recruit smoke-family dyads and provide education and information about tobacco and health, and smoking cessation resources through 2 small-group education sessions and 2 individual phone calls over a 2-month period.
In this comparison arm, participants will receive the same number of contacts on the same schedule and in the same format (2 small group sessions and 2 telephone calls). The comparison LHWs will receive training about "Healthy Living" focusing on nutrition and physical activity education. Participants will also receive the Smoking Cessation Resource Handout.
Korean Community Center of the East Bay
San Leandro, California, United States
Abstinence
Biochemically verified 7-day point prevalence of cigarette abstinence at 3-month post baseline assessment (initiation of intervention)
Time frame: 3 months
Secondhand smoke (SHS) exposure of non-smokers
Biochemically verified 7-day point prevalence of SHS exposure at 3-month post baseline assessment (initiation of intervention)
Time frame: 3 months
Percent attendance
Percent of participants who attend at least 3 out of 4 planned contacts
Time frame: 3-month
Percentage of participants who rate the intervention as helpful
Participants will rate their perception as to whether or not they found the intervention to be helpful at the 3 month assessment
Time frame: 3 months
Number of Quit attempts
Self-report number participants making a quit attempt(s) that lasted at least for 24 hours since baseline
Time frame: 3 months
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