This project is funded by Department of Health. We will run a quitline which provides telephone smoking cessation counseling to youth smokers aged 25 or below. After baseline counseling based on trans-theoretical model, follow-up counseling will be provided by trained counselors (i.e. nursing students or students from other healthrelated disciplines) at 1 week, 1, 3, 6, 9 and 12 months. It is expected that the quitline can assist youth smokers to quit smoking, thus saving the healthcare cost attributed to smoking in long-term.
This project will last for 15 months (from 1st Dec 2020 to 28th Feb 2022). Prior to commencement, a month will be spent on preparation, including setting up the quitline and website, designing and printing publicity materials, connecting with secondary and post-secondary schools and training peer counsellors. We will operate the quitline for 15 months and provide telephone counselling for eligible youth smokers. Self-reported quitters at 6-month follow-up will be invited for biochemical validation.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
NA
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
400
(1) Ask - ask youth smokers about their smoking habit, (2) Advise - advise youth smokers to quit smoking, (3) Assess - assess youth smokers about their willingness to quit smoking, (4) Assist - assist youth smokers who are willing to make a quit attempt, and (5) Arrange \- arrange for follow-up.
Ka Yan Ho
Hong Kong, Hong Kong,China, Hong Kong
RECRUITINGSelf-reported 7-point prevalence
The self-reported abstinence will be validated if the level of carbon monoxide in expired air was less than 4 parts per million and saliva cotinine level was less than100 ng/mL in parallel tests.
Time frame: at the 6-month follow-up
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