Smoking Cessation Program Among Adolescents in Vocational Training Centers

NCT ID: NCT00973570

Last Updated: 2025-03-28

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 2000 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2008-02-29
• Study Completion Date: 2010-01-31

Brief Summary

Background: Most of the efforts to fight against young people's tobacco addiction have focused on smoking prevention and little on smoking cessation. A smoking cessation program, associating pharmacologic and cognitive-behavioural strategy, on a particularly vulnerable population (vocational trainees), was developed by a team of tobacco addiction specialist physicians. We developed a study to evaluate the efficacy of the program. Its main objective is to compare the efficacy of a smoking cessation program offered to all smokers in a population aged 15 to 20 years in Vocational Training Centers (VTC) with that in a control population. The objective of this paper is to present the TABADO study protocol and the results of the pilot study.

Methods: The study is quasi-experimental, prospective, evaluative and comparative and takes place during the 2 years of vocational training. The final population will be composed of 2000 trainees entering a VTC (in Lorraine, France): The intervention group (1000 trainees) benefited from the TABADO program while no specific intervention took place in the "control" group (1000 trainees) other than the treatment and education services usually available. Our primary outcome will be the tobacco abstinence rate at 12 months.

The pilot study is a descriptive monocentric cross-sectional study conducted among the whole group of students, completed by a longitudinal prospective study of smoker volunteers.

Conditions

Tobacco Use

Study Design

• Allocation Method: NON_RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Primary Study Purpose: PREVENTION
• Blinding Strategy: NONE

Study Groups

"Intervention" group

The "intervention" group benefits from the TABADO program

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

TABADO program

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

The intervention takes place in 3 stages: (i) a general information session on tobacco consumption is delivered to all teenagers, both smokers and nonsmokers. (ii) For smokers wishing to join the program, this session is followed by individualized consultations with a team of tobacco addiction physicians. (iii) The volunteers then benefit from a small group approach, consisting of discussion sessions to share experiences, strengthen motivation, and prevent relapse. There will be 4 sessions in total, comprising individual counseling and work in groups spread over 3 months (taking into account the availability of the trainees because of their alternate-week training schedule).

"Control" group

The "control" group not benefit from any specific intervention other than the treatment and education usually available

Group Type: NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

TABADO program

The intervention takes place in 3 stages: (i) a general information session on tobacco consumption is delivered to all teenagers, both smokers and nonsmokers. (ii) For smokers wishing to join the program, this session is followed by individualized consultations with a team of tobacco addiction physicians. (iii) The volunteers then benefit from a small group approach, consisting of discussion sessions to share experiences, strengthen motivation, and prevent relapse. There will be 4 sessions in total, comprising individual counseling and work in groups spread over 3 months (taking into account the availability of the trainees because of their alternate-week training schedule).

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• All students, males and females, registered in the VTC for at least a 2-year training period
• Aged from 15 to 20 years

Exclusion Criteria

• Subjects with current serious psychiatric disorders or who may be susceptible to decompensation upon quitting smoking (major depression)
• Smokers who are involved in an ongoing attempt to quit, with medical monitoring.

• Minimum Eligible Age: 15 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 20 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Sponsors

University of Nancy

OTHER

Sponsor Role: collaborator

Central Hospital, Nancy, France

OTHER

Sponsor Role: collaborator

Institut National de la Santé Et de la Recherche Médicale, France

OTHER_GOV

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Responsibility Role: SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

François ALLA, MD/ PhD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Institut National de la Santé Et de la Recherche Médicale, France

Locations

CHU Nancy

Nancy, Lorraine, France

Countries

France

References

Minary L, Martini H, Wirth N, Thouvenot F, Acouetey DS, Martinet Y, Bohadana A, Zmirou-Navier D, Alla F. TABADO: "evaluation of a smoking cessation program among adolescents in vocational training centers": study protocol. BMC Public Health. 2009 Nov 13;9:411. doi: 10.1186/1471-2458-9-411.

Reference Type: BACKGROUND

PMID: 19912627 (View on PubMed)

Other Identifiers

C07-43

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id