Indonesia is one of the countries that does not sign The World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO-FCTC), and the numbers of Indonesian smokers increase every year. The Volitional-Help Sheet (VHS) has been used successfully to help people quit smoking, but has not yet been tested in Indonesia. The present study aims to adapt and implement the VHS to promote smoking cessation among smokers aged 20- 45 years. The main outcome measure is smoking abstinence; secondary outcomes are nicotine dependence, and capabilities, opportunities and motivations.
The main outcome measure is smoking abstinence; secondary outcomes are nicotine dependence, and capabilities, opportunities and motivations. All participants will be smokers aged 20-45 years who will complete self-report measures of outcomes over three waves of data collection. Once baseline measures are collected, participants will be randomised at wave 1 to intervention versus control condition. Participants in the intervention group will complete the VHS for smoking cessation in addition to the baseline measures. At wave 2, one-month following wave 1, participants will again be randomised to intervention (complete the VHS) and control condition. There will thus be four conditions: control, early intervention, late intervention and repeated intervention. Outcomes will be assessed at wave 3, six-months after wave 2.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
2,700
The volitional help sheet is an intervention which provides an opportunity for people to actively plan their behavioural changes by using a list of situations and solutions. The list of situations are critical situations which provoke unwanted behaviour, and the solutions are the responses to overcome the situations which urge the unexpected behaviour. In the context of smoking behaviour, the list of situations is the situations that will provoke cigarette uptake and the list of solutions is the appropriate responses to reduce or stop the urge to smoke.
Rina Rahmatika
Manchester, United Kingdom
RECRUITINGSmoking Cessation
Participants will complete a self-report questionnaire to assess their cigarette uptake by ticking one of the following options: (a) I have never smoked (b) I have only tried smoking once (c) I used to smoke sometimes, but I never smoke cigarettes now (d) I sometimes smoke cigarettes now, but I do not smoke as many as one a week (e) I usually smoke between one and six cigarettes a week (f) I usually smoke more than six cigarettes a week. The code for the response of options "a-d" is 0, and "e-f" is 1.
Time frame: 6 months
Nicotine dependence
The Fagerstrom nicotine dependence scale will assess nicotine dependence. The scoring method in FTND is 0 to 1 for yes/no items and a score of 0 to 3 for the multiple-choice items. The items are summed to yield a total score of 0-10. The higher the total FTND score, the more intense the smoker's physical dependence on nicotine.
Time frame: 6 months
Intervention evaluation
The Capability Opportunity Motivation-Behaviour (COM-B) Questionnaire will measure how the intervention contributes to the behaviour changes. The higher the score, the more the intervention contributes to the behaviour changes.
Time frame: 6 months
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