Helping Moms Quit Pilot Trial

University of Kansas Medical Center30 enrolled

Overview

The objective of this study is to test the feasibility and preliminary effectiveness of a tailored text message program to support smoking abstinence among postpartum women who smoke or recently quit.

This pilot trial will evaluate a text message intervention (Moms Quit) to be initiated with postpartum women within one month of delivery. Moms Quit is a tailored program to support smoking abstinence among new mothers who are either current smokers or quit during their most recent pregnancy. Investigators will randomize 30 postpartum women, stratified by recent/current smoking status, into Moms Quit versus vs. CONTROL. Investigators hypothesize that participants receiving Moms Quit will have, on average, a significantly longer period of self-reported prolonged abstinence compared to CONTROL.

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

TREATMENT

Masking

NONE

Enrollment

Conditions

Smoking Cessation

Interventions

Moms QuitBEHAVIORAL

Participants will receive text messages tailored on (1) current smoking status and (2) intention to quit/remain quit. Message content includes supportive messaging for child and self-care, relapse prevention, and smoking cessation. Women who are ready to quit will receive messages from the SmokeFreeText library.

Text4BabyBEHAVIORAL

Text4Baby is a free, publicly available text messaging program that provides information about nutrition, safe sleep tips, baby's milestones, signs and symptoms of labor, doctor visit and appointment reminders, breastfeeding advice, car seat safety, information on health insurance, urgent health alerts, and resource hotlines and websites.

Eligibility

Sex: FEMALEMin age: 18 YearsHealthy volunteers:

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: * Less than one month postpartum * Live delivery * Smoked at least 100 cigarettes/lifetime * Smoked anytime during their most recent pregnancy * English-speaking * Own a mobile phone * Provide an email address * Willing to receive intervention-related texts * Willing to complete surveys * Willing to provide a saliva sample at the end of the study Exclusion Criteria: * Women whose pregnancy did not result in live birth * On a 7-point scale, participant indicates that they are not interested in quitting or staying quit in the next 6 months (Not at all = 1).

Locations (1)

University of Kansas Medical Center

Kansas City, Kansas, United States

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Days abstinent in the past 30 days

Self-reported abstinence in the past 30 days

Time frame: 12 weeks post-randomization

Secondary Outcomes

7 day point prevalence abstinence

Biochemically verified 7 day point prevalence abstinence using salivary cotinine with a 13ng/ml cut off

Time frame: 12 weeks post-randomization

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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