Quit IT: Preliminary Testing of a Web-based, 3D Coping Skills Game to Increase Quitting Self-Efficacy for Maintaining Smoking Abstinence Following Hospitalization

NCT ID: NCT02099097

Last Updated: 2020-12-30

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 50 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2014-03-24
• Study Completion Date: 2020-12-24

Brief Summary

The purpose of this study is to develop and test a web-based game called Quit It that is designed to help smokers who have quit smoking cope with any smoking urges they may have. The purpose of the game is to help people quit and stop people from smoking again.

Conditions

Tobacco Use Cessation

Keywords

3D Coping Skills Game; Quit smoking; 14-062

Study Design

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

Study Groups

Standard Care

usual care, which consists of four (face-to-face or telephone) counseling sessions with a trained nurse who has expertise in helping cancer patients quit smoking. This is the same as the treatment an MSK patient who enrolls in the MSK smoking cessation program would receive.

To collect further data to improve the game intervention, the investigators will conduct semi-structured telephone interviews with patients who were randomized to the treatment arm but did not play the game during the one month intervention period. The purpose of the interviews is to elicit qualitative feedback on any barriers that may have prevented participants from playing. At the completion of the intervention period, patients will be asked if they would like to participate in a telephone interview. Telephone interviews will take about twenty minutes and will be held at a time that is convenient for the patient.

Group Type: ACTIVE_COMPARATOR

Questionnaires

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

In order to maximize survey the response rate, patients will be mailed a reminder letter approximately two weeks before the 1 month follow up surveys are due. If the survey is not returned, patients will be sent additional reminders on the survey due date as well as two weeks past the due date.

Salvia sample

Intervention Type: OTHER

The investigators will inform patients prior to obtaining their self-reports that a saliva test or expired CO sample for those using NRT or electronic cigarettes will be performed to examine recent tobacco exposure.

Smoking Cues Coping Skills Game (SC+SCCS/Quit IT).

Smokers randomly assigned to SC+SCCS/Quit IT will receive all the components of Standard Care. The patient will be oriented and trained face-to-face (during their hospitalization) on use of the game by study staff using an iPad. The orientation and training session will comprise: 1) Overview of the game and its objectives; 2) discussion of the rules of the game; 3) watching a 10 minute tutorial given by the game narrator (avatar); 4) answering all patient questions; and 5) evaluation of the patient's comprehension of game play via a 17 question survey. Once patients have access to QuitIT, they will also receive a set of Coping Cards

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

web-based video game (Quit IT)

Intervention Type: OTHER

Questionnaires

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

In order to maximize survey the response rate, patients will be mailed a reminder letter approximately two weeks before the 1 month follow up surveys are due. If the survey is not returned, patients will be sent additional reminders on the survey due date as well as two weeks past the due date.

Salvia sample

Intervention Type: OTHER

The investigators will inform patients prior to obtaining their self-reports that a saliva test or expired CO sample for those using NRT or electronic cigarettes will be performed to examine recent tobacco exposure.

Interventions

web-based video game (Quit IT)

Intervention Type: OTHER

Questionnaires

In order to maximize survey the response rate, patients will be mailed a reminder letter approximately two weeks before the 1 month follow up surveys are due. If the survey is not returned, patients will be sent additional reminders on the survey due date as well as two weeks past the due date.

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Salvia sample

The investigators will inform patients prior to obtaining their self-reports that a saliva test or expired CO sample for those using NRT or electronic cigarettes will be performed to examine recent tobacco exposure.

Intervention Type: OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• Age ≥ 18 years old
• English-speaking
• Cancer (solid tumor) diagnosis or mass suspicious of cancer within past six months as per clinical judgment
• Cancer treatment expected plan to include hospitalization for surgical treatment for at least 2 days at MSKCC as per the patients clinical team
• Referred to MSK's Tobacco Cessation Program
• Patient-reported cigarette use within the past 30 days
• Have sufficient sensory acuity (i.e., auditory, visual) and manual dexterity to use a computer game as per judgment of clinician or consenting professional
• Can be reached by telephone

Exclusion Criteria

• Distant metastatic disease at the time of enrollment
• Major psychiatric illness or cognitive impairment that in the judgment of the investigator would preclude study participation
• Any patients who are unable to comply with the study procedures as determined by the study investigators

• Minimum Eligible Age: 18 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

New York University

OTHER

Sponsor Role: collaborator

Muzzy Lane Software

UNKNOWN

Sponsor Role: collaborator

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Responsibility Role: SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

Jamie Ostroff, PhD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Locations

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

New York, New York, United States

Countries

United States

References

Streck JM, Rigotti NA, Livingstone-Banks J, Tindle HA, Clair C, Munafo MR, Sterling-Maisel C, Hartmann-Boyce J. Interventions for smoking cessation in hospitalised patients. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2024 May 21;5(5):CD001837. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD001837.pub4.

Reference Type: DERIVED

PMID: 38770804 (View on PubMed)

Provided Documents

Document Type: Informed Consent Form

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Related Links

http://www.mskcc.org/

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Other Identifiers

14-062

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id