Counseling to Reduce Children's SHS Exposure: A Trial With Maternal Smokers

NCT ID: NCT02117947

Last Updated: 2017-02-15

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

300 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2004-07-31

Study Completion Date

2011-06-30

Brief Summary

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The goal of this study is to reduce infant and toddlers' secondhand smoke exposure (SHSe) in a high risk, medically underserved population of maternal smokers. The program is called "Philadelphia FRESH (Family Rules for Establishing Smokefree Homes)". Participants are recruited from low-income urban neighborhoods in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. After determining study eligibility via telephone screen, all participants complete an in-home pre-intervention interview that includes self-reported smoking history, current smoking and exposure patterns, and factors that relate to maternal smoking (such as depressive symptoms, weight concerns, nicotine dependence,) as well as collection of child urine cotinine (a biomarker used to detect SHSe).

Participants are randomized after baseline to receive either (a) a moderately intensive (up to 2 in-home sessions, 8 phone sessions) Behavioral Counseling intervention (BC) delivered over a 16-week period by counselors trained and supervised by investigators, or (b) an enhanced Self-Help Control (SHC) that uses brief advice and a detailed self-help manual for SHSe-reduction and smokingcessation. Post intervention assessments include self-reports of intervention process, factors associated with intervention effects, and intervention outcomes that include child urine cotinine (to measure level of SHSe) and participant saliva cotinine (to verify self-reported smoking quit status). Interviewers and data management staff remain blind to the treatment assignment. All procedures are implemented after signed informed consent and were approved by Temple University's Institutional Review Board.

Detailed Description

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This study represents a community-based behavioral counseling trial designed to reduce infant and toddlers' secondhand smoke exposure (SHSe) in a high risk, medically underserved population of African American maternal smokers. The program is called "Philadelphia FRESH (Family Rules for Establishing Smokefree Homes)". Participants are recruited from low-income urban neighborhoods in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania via posters on mass transit, newspaper ads, and referral from pediatricians or community WIC clinics.

Inclusion Criteria:

* mothers who smoke at least 5 cigarettes per day
* have a child under 4 years of age
* report exposing their youngest child to at least 2 of her cigarettes per day. (Child exposure to a cigarette is defined as a child being in the same room or car when adult is smoking. Room is defined as 4-walls and a door that closes.)

Exclusion Criteria:

* Diagnosis of a Axis I psychiatric disorder
* pregnant
* not proficient in English.

After determining study eligibility via telephone screen, all participants complete an in-home baseline interview that includes self-reported smoking history, current smoking and exposure patterns, and factors that relate to maternal smoking (such as depressive symptoms, weight concerns, nicotine dependence,) as well as collection of child urine cotinine (a biomarker used to detect SHSe).

Participants are randomized to receive either a Behavioral Counseling intervention (BC) delivered over a 16-week period by master's level counselors trained and supervised by PhD-level investigators, or an enhanced Self-Help Control (SHC) that uses a detailed self-help manual for SHSe-reduction and smoking cessation. Post intervention assessments at 16 weeks, 3- and 12-month follow-up include self-reports of factors associated with intervention effects and intervention outcomes that include child urine cotinine (to measure level of SHSe) and participant saliva cotinine (to verify self-reported smoking quit status). Interviewers and data management staff remain blind to the treatment assignment. All procedures are implemented after signed informed consent and were approved by Temple University's Institutional Review Board.

Behavioral Counseling (BC): Mothers randomized to receive BC complete two in-home, and up to a 8 proactive telephone counseling sessions within a 16-week period. Mothers also receive four health education and self-help mailings sent in two week intervals during the first 8 weeks of their participation to supplement the counseling content. (These four mailings are identical to the self-help materials received by the control group.) The overarching goal of child SHSe reduction is intended to be achieved through specific BC objectives. These objectives include facilitation of health education regarding the dangers of SHSe and smoking, plus the benefits of SHSe-reduction and smoking cessation to maternal and child health. Additional objectives include (a) building family-level social support to facilitate home-level smoking behavior change; (b) fostering coping and problem-solving skills to help participants manage smoking urges as well as general life stressors; (c) providing and modeling abundant positive reinforcement following SHSe reduction efforts to facilitate confidence and motivation for more challenging smoking behavior change goals.

Self-Help Control (SHC) group: Participants in SHC group receive an intervention binder with brief advice by telephone on how to use the manual for SHSe reduction. The binder contains information identical to the BC group, however, all binder content is included in this single mailing.

Primary study outcomes include change in (a) maternal-reported child SHSe (reported as cigarettes exposed per day) obtained via validated timeline follow-back methods; and (b) baby urine cotinine- a biomarker of SHSe standard in tobacco exposure studies. Secondary outcomes include (a) change in maternal cigarettes smoked per day and (b) maternal reported 7-day point prevalence abstinence, bioverified by saliva cotinine. Urine and saliva samples were assayed for cotinine using high performance liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry as an indicator of exposure to tobacco smoke.

Conditions

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Nicotine Dependence

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

TREATMENT

Blinding Strategy

DOUBLE

Investigators Outcome Assessors

Study Groups

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Behavioral Counseling

Behavioral counseling used evidence-based smoking cessation intervention components as well as a theoretically-framed focus on behavioral shaping to promote the adoption of smoke-free homes and cars. Sessions included two, 1-hour in-home counseling and seven, 5-15 minute telephone follow-up sessions over 16 weeks. Content included health ed around the benefits of eliminating children's exposure to secondhand smoke; skills training around adoption and maintenance of smoke-free environments; goal setting, problem solving, and positive reinforcement for progress toward goals; coping skills training for smoking urge and mood management; and home support for maternal smoking behavior change achieve through family contracts and home detailing promoting pro-smoke-free home norms.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Behavioral Counseling

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Behavioral counseling used components of evidence-based smoking intervention treatment to promote maternal smokers efforts in reducing their children's exposure to secondhand smoke.

Self-help control

The self-help control group received a comprehensive self-help manual that outlined all of the goals and strategies covered in counseling, however, counseling was not provided to this group.

Group Type ACTIVE_COMPARATOR

Self-help control

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

This intervention group received a comprehensive self-help manual that included information and advice about how to protect children from secondhand smoke (e.g., adopting a smokefree home and car.)

Interventions

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Behavioral Counseling

Behavioral counseling used components of evidence-based smoking intervention treatment to promote maternal smokers efforts in reducing their children's exposure to secondhand smoke.

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Self-help control

This intervention group received a comprehensive self-help manual that included information and advice about how to protect children from secondhand smoke (e.g., adopting a smokefree home and car.)

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Mothers who smoke at least 5 cigarettes per day
* have at least one child under 4 years of old (youngest child is target child for data collection (urine cotinine)
* report exposing youngest (target) child to at least 2 of her cigarettes/day (defined as child in the same room \[4-walls and a door that closes\] or car when someone is actively smoking a cigarette.

Exclusion Criteria

* current diagnosis or treatment of a psychiatric disorder
* currently pregnant
* not proficient in English
Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Maximum Eligible Age

50 Years

Eligible Sex

FEMALE

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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National Cancer Institute (NCI)

NIH

Sponsor Role collaborator

Temple University

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Responsibility Role SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

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Bradley N Collins, PhD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Temple University

Locations

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Temple University Health Behavior Research Clinic

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Site Status

Countries

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United States

References

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Collins BN, Wileyto EP, Hovell MF, Nair US, Jaffe K, Tolley NM, Audrain-McGovern J. Proactive recruitment predicts participant retention to end of treatment in a secondhand smoke reduction trial with low-income maternal smokers. Transl Behav Med. 2011 Sep;1(3):394-9. doi: 10.1007/s13142-011-0059-6.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 24073063 (View on PubMed)

Collins BN, Nair U, Hovell MF, Audrain-McGovern J. Smoking-related weight concerns among underserved, black maternal smokers. Am J Health Behav. 2009 Nov-Dec;33(6):699-709. doi: 10.5993/ajhb.33.6.7.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 19320618 (View on PubMed)

Collins BN, Ibrahim JK, Hovell M, Tolley NM, Nair US, Jaffe K, Zanis D, Audrain-McGovern J. Residential smoking restrictions are not associated with reduced child SHS exposure in a baseline sample of low-income, urban African Americans. Health (Irvine Calif). 2010 Nov;2(11):1264-1271. doi: 10.4236/health.2010.211188.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 23875066 (View on PubMed)

Collins BN, Ibrahim J. Pediatric Secondhand Smoke Exposure: Moving Toward Systematic Multi-Level Strategies to Improve Health. Glob Heart. 2012 Jul;7(2):161-165. doi: 10.1016/j.gheart.2012.05.001. No abstract available.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 24040587 (View on PubMed)

Collins BN, Nair US, Shwarz M, Jaffe K, Winickoff J. SHS-Related Pediatric Sick Visits are Linked to Maternal Depressive Symptoms among Low-Income African American Smokers: An Opportunity for Intervention in Pediatrics. J Child Fam Stud. 2013 Oct;22(7):1013-21. doi: 10.1007/s10826-012-9663-4.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 24339721 (View on PubMed)

Shwarz M, Collins BN, Nair US. Factors associated with maternal depressive symptoms among low-income, African American smokers enrolled in a secondhand smoke reduction programme. Ment Health Fam Med. 2012 Dec;9(4):275-87.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 24294302 (View on PubMed)

Collins BN, DiSantis KI, Nair US. Longer previous smoking abstinence relates to successful breastfeeding initiation among underserved smokers. Breastfeed Med. 2011 Dec;6(6):385-91. doi: 10.1089/bfm.2010.0076. Epub 2011 Jan 21.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 21254795 (View on PubMed)

Collins BN, Levin KP, Bryant-Stephens T. Pediatricians' practices and attitudes about environmental tobacco smoke and parental smoking. J Pediatr. 2007 May;150(5):547-52. doi: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2007.01.006.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 17452234 (View on PubMed)

Collins BN, Nair US, DiSantis KI, Hovell MF, Davis SM, Rodriguez D, Audrain-McGovern J. Long-term Results From the FRESH RCT: Sustained Reduction of Children's Tobacco Smoke Exposure. Am J Prev Med. 2020 Jan;58(1):21-30. doi: 10.1016/j.amepre.2019.08.021. Epub 2019 Nov 21.

Reference Type DERIVED
PMID: 31759804 (View on PubMed)

Collins BN, Nair US, Davis SM, Rodriguez D. Increasing Home Smoking Restrictions Boosts Underserved Moms' Bioverified Quit Success. Am J Health Behav. 2019 Jan 1;43(1):50-56. doi: 10.5993/AJHB.43.1.5.

Reference Type DERIVED
PMID: 30522566 (View on PubMed)

Collins BN, Nair US, Hovell MF, DiSantis KI, Jaffe K, Tolley NM, Wileyto EP, Audrain-McGovern J. Reducing Underserved Children's Exposure to Tobacco Smoke: A Randomized Counseling Trial With Maternal Smokers. Am J Prev Med. 2015 Oct;49(4):534-44. doi: 10.1016/j.amepre.2015.03.008. Epub 2015 May 28.

Reference Type DERIVED
PMID: 26028355 (View on PubMed)

Other Identifiers

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R01CA105183

Identifier Type: NIH

Identifier Source: secondary_id

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R01CA105183

Identifier Type: NIH

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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