Center for Disease Control (CDC) Fax to Quit/Academic Detailing Grant

NCT ID: NCT00989755

Last Updated: 2015-12-09

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 49 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2008-09-30
• Study Completion Date: 2011-08-31

Brief Summary

The purpose of this study is to evaluate Fax to Quit (F2Q) - a strategy that links state quitlines to health care delivery systems. FQ capitalizes upon the healthcare visit as an opportunity for intervention, consistent with the finding that approximately 70% of smokers visit a primary care physician each year. Successful integration of quitlines into healthcare delivery will transform regular healthcare visits into easily implemented, cost-beneficial avenues via which smokers all across America will be routinely inducted into effective cessation intervention. F2Q will be evaluated as follows:

1. Does F2Q increase contacts and "quality contacts," between the quitline and patients who smoke and receive health care at a participating clinic? A "quality contact" is defined as a quitline referral that results in the individual enrolling in the quitline counseling services. This aim will be assessed by measuring the rates of quitline referrals in 49 clinics before and after F2Q has been implemented.

2. Are contact rates and enrollment rates of F2Q increased by "Enhanced Academic Detailing" at clinic sites (with enhanced academic detailing comprising ongoing training/technical assistance as well as performance feedback)?

3. What are the features of the Fax to Quit (F2Q) and Fax to Quit plus Enhanced Academic Detailing (F2Q + EAD) interventions that key clinic personnel found helpful and easy to implement, as well as features that were unhelpful and difficult? This information will be gathered in qualitative assessments that also will identify clinic strategies and organizational features that facilitated successful implementation.

4. What are the incremental costs of instating and sustaining F2Q and F2Q + EAD and how do these costs compare to other quitline promotional strategies (e.g., paid media, medication give-away programs)?

Conditions

Smoking

Study Design

• Allocation Method: RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: SINGLE_GROUP
• Primary Study Purpose: HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
• Blinding Strategy: NONE

Study Groups

Fax to Quit plus Enhanced Academic Detailing (F2Q + EAD)

Clinics in this group receive Fax to Quit materials and in person training from a Regional Outreach Specialist (ROS). The ROS also provides on-going training/technical assistance and performance feedback.

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Fax to Quit (F2Q)

Intervention Type: OTHER

Clinics in this group receive electronic and hard copies of all materials necessary for implementing Fax to Quit within their clinics.

Fax to Quit alone

Clinics in this group receive Fax to Quit materials and can download materials from a website.

Group Type: PLACEBO_COMPARATOR

Fax to Quit (F2Q)

Intervention Type: OTHER

Clinics in this group receive electronic and hard copies of all materials necessary for implementing Fax to Quit within their clinics.

Interventions

Fax to Quit (F2Q)

Clinics in this group receive electronic and hard copies of all materials necessary for implementing Fax to Quit within their clinics.

Intervention Type: OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• Adult (18 years of age or older)
• Smoker seeking medical care from general practice (internal medicine) clinic (clinic enrolled in study)
• Smoker motivated to make a quit attempt

Exclusion Criteria

• None

• Minimum Eligible Age: 18 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Sponsors

University of Wisconsin, Madison

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Responsibility Role: SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

Michael C Fiore, MD MPH MBA

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

University of Wisconsin--CTRI

Locations

Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention

Madison, Wisconsin, United States

Countries

United States

References

Sheffer MA, Baker TB, Fraser DL, Adsit RT, McAfee TA, Fiore MC. Fax referrals, academic detailing, and tobacco quitline use: a randomized trial. Am J Prev Med. 2012 Jan;42(1):21-8. doi: 10.1016/j.amepre.2011.08.028.

Reference Type: DERIVED

PMID: 22176842 (View on PubMed)

Other Identifiers

M-2008-1335

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id