Helping Youth Smokers Stop Smoking Through the Youth Quitline Programme
NCT ID: NCT02758028
Last Updated: 2020-12-14
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Basic Information
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UNKNOWN
NA
300 participants
INTERVENTIONAL
2005-08-31
2021-11-30
Brief Summary
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1. To raise the awareness of smoking cessation service among youth smokers in Hong Kong;
2. To provide smoking cessation quitline service to youth smokers; and
3. To provide training to teenagers as peer smoking cessation counsellors.
4. To examine the effectiveness of adventure-based training and WhatsApp messages in helping youth smokers to quit
Detailed Description
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Youth smokers are recruited using the reactive and proactive strategies. The operation hours of Quitline service are weekdays from 17:00 to 21:00 and on weekends from 14:00 to 20:00. A questionnaire asking the smoking status, reason of smoking, dependency level, knowledge, attitude and practice of smoking or quitting at baseline, the perceived barriers of the smokers and the use of other tobacco products were designed to assess the status of participants, brief counselling with the use of motivational intervention approach is delivered during the phone call.
Telephone counseling at 1-week, 1-month, 3-month, 6-month, 9-month, 12-month and follow-up at 24-month are conducted with the participants to assess their smoking status (by questionnaire) and reinforce intervention (encourage quitting and providing quitting tips). Self-reported quitters who have quitted smoking for at least 7 days at 6-month are invited to perform saliva cotinine test (using NicAlert strip) plus exhaled carbon monoxide text to validate the smoking status.
A qualitative interview will be conducted to investigate the use of other tobacco products of the Youth Quitline participants, and aimed to find out their smoking patterns and feelings of using these products, and how these products might affect quitting or smoking, and how the protest activates influence the smoking behaviors among the youth smokers.
Conditions
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Keywords
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Study Design
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NA
SINGLE_GROUP
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
NONE
Study Groups
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Brief counseling
Peer counselling is delivered based on the queries and the needs of individual clients, according to the smoking status, dependency level and the perceived barriers of each individual with the use of motivational intervention approach. Counsellors will emphasizes the identification, use, and modification of personally relevant coping strategies. Advice will be provided on overcoming expected difficulty, withdrawal symptoms and relapse prevention during quitting.
The subjects will be followed up at 1-week, 1-, 3-, 6-, 9-, 12- and 24-month via telephone assessing their smoking status and reinforce intervention.
Brief counseling
Peer counselling is delivered based on the queries and the needs of individual clients, according to the smoking status, dependency level and the perceived barriers of each individual with the use of motivational intervention approach.
The subjects will be followed up at 1-week, 1-, 3-, 6-, 9-, 12- and 24-month via telephone assessing their smoking status and reinforce intervention.
Interventions
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Brief counseling
Peer counselling is delivered based on the queries and the needs of individual clients, according to the smoking status, dependency level and the perceived barriers of each individual with the use of motivational intervention approach.
The subjects will be followed up at 1-week, 1-, 3-, 6-, 9-, 12- and 24-month via telephone assessing their smoking status and reinforce intervention.
Eligibility Criteria
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Inclusion Criteria
* Able to communicate in Chinese (Cantonese)
* Smoked in the past 30 days
Exclusion Criteria
* Having queries irrelevant to tobacco control
25 Years
ALL
No
Sponsors
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The University of Hong Kong
OTHER
Responsible Party
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Dr. LI William Ho Cheung
Associate Professor
Principal Investigators
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Ho-Cheung Li, PhD
Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
The University of Hong Kong
Locations
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The University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong, , China
Countries
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Central Contacts
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Facility Contacts
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William Li, PhD
Role: primary
Other Identifiers
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YouthQuitline
Identifier Type: -
Identifier Source: org_study_id