Brief Intervention to Create Smoke-Free Homes Policies in Low-Income Households: North Carolina Effectiveness Trial

NCT ID: NCT01868672

Last Updated: 2014-08-04

Study Results

Results pending

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

500 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2013-06-30

Study Completion Date

2014-07-31

Brief Summary

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The burden of tobacco use falls disproportionately on low-income populations, through high rates of primary smoking and exposure to secondhand smoke. The remarkable progress in creating smoke-free environments in the U.S. over the past two decades has left smoker's homes as one of the primary sources of exposure to secondhand smoke for both children and nonsmoking adults. Intervention research that identifies effective and practical strategies for reaching the minority of households that still allow smoking in the home has considerable potential to reduce smoke exposure, but suitable channels to reach low-income families are limited.

The proposed research will systematically test an intervention designed to create smoke-free homes in low income households among 2-1-1 callers. During this randomized control trial, researchers will disseminate and evaluate a brief smoke-free homes intervention through the established infrastructure of a North Carolina 2-1-1 call center. 2-1-1 is a nationally designated 3-digit telephone exchange, similar to 9-1-1 for emergencies or 4-1-1 for directory assistance, that links callers to community-based health and social services. The main hypothesis to be tested is that a higher proportion of households in the intervention group will establish and maintain a smoke-free home than in the measures-only control group.

Detailed Description

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Conditions

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Chronic Disease

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

TREATMENT

Blinding Strategy

SINGLE

Outcome Assessors

Study Groups

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Control

Participant receives usual care.

Group Type NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Intervention

Educational print materials and coaching call: Intervention group participants receive three sets of mailed educational materials about making their home smoke-free and one coaching call.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Educational print materials and coaching call

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Intervention group participants receive three sets of mailed educational materials about making their home smoke-free and one coaching call.

Interventions

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Educational print materials and coaching call

Intervention group participants receive three sets of mailed educational materials about making their home smoke-free and one coaching call.

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Must be 18 years of age or older.
* Must speak and understand English.
* Must smoke and live with at least one other non-smoking person OR be a non-smoker who lives with a smoker(s).
* Must not have a total smoking ban in their home.

Exclusion Criteria

* All participants who are not in immediate crisis will be invited to participate in the study.
Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Sponsors

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National Cancer Institute (NCI)

NIH

Sponsor Role collaborator

Emory University

OTHER

Sponsor Role collaborator

The University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston

OTHER

Sponsor Role collaborator

Washington University School of Medicine

OTHER

Sponsor Role collaborator

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Responsibility Role SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

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Rebecca S Williams, MHS, PhD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Locations

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University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States

Site Status

Countries

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United States

References

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Kegler MC, Escoffery C, Bundy L, Berg CJ, Haardorfer R, Yembra D, Schauer G. Pilot study results from a brief intervention to create smoke-free homes. J Environ Public Health. 2012;2012:951426. doi: 10.1155/2012/951426. Epub 2012 May 17.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 22675374 (View on PubMed)

Escoffery C, Bundy L, Carvalho M, Yembra D, Haardorfer R, Berg C, Kegler MC. Third-hand smoke as a potential intervention message for promoting smoke-free homes in low-income communities. Health Educ Res. 2013 Oct;28(5):923-30. doi: 10.1093/her/cyt056. Epub 2013 May 13.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 23669213 (View on PubMed)

Other Identifiers

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U01CA154282

Identifier Type: NIH

Identifier Source: secondary_id

View Link

13-1808

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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