Integrated Smoking Cessation Treatment for Smokers With Serious Mental Illness

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

1165 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2016-07-14

Study Completion Date

2021-01-12

Brief Summary

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The overall aim of this study is to test the effect of academic detailing (i.e. provider-level educational intervention focused on evidence-based smoking cessation treatment for those with psychiatric illness) and community health worker (CHW) support on the provision and utilization of standard of care smoking cessation treatment to those with serious mental illness (SMI) and smoking cessation rates for adults with SMI who smoke.

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Detailed Description

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In this study, the investigators aim to test whether a provider-level educational intervention in the form of targeted, practical, action-oriented education to primary care physicians and nurses on safety and effectiveness of and how to use evidence-based smoking cessation treatment for those with psychiatric illness, termed academic detailing (AD), and practical support offered to the primary care physician / primary care team and the smoker with SMI in the form of a community health worker (CHW) will improve recommendation and utilization of standard of care smoking cessation treatments to and by those with SMI and, if so, whether the intervention improves smoking cessation rates for adults with SMI who smoke.

To do so, the investigators will enroll approximately 1300 adult smokers with SMI who receive psychiatric rehabilitation services, Community Based Flexible Support (CBFS) or Assertive Community Treatment (ACT)), from the two largest providers of these services in the Boston area. Primary care clinics that serve 3 or more enrolled participants will be cluster randomized in a 2:1 ratio to either receive AD for their clinical staff or treatment as usual (TAU) in a cluster randomized design. Smokers with SMI in the study who receive primary care at the clinics assigned to the AD intervention to providers will be randomly assigned at the individual level in a 1:1 ratio to be offered CHW support in addition to their ongoing psychiatric rehabilitation (CBFS or ACT) services. This was the original design for the study and these participants comprise Cohort 1. The protocol was modified and approved by the sponsor in February 2018 to include a second cohort. Because 155 enrolled participants received primary care in 155 clinics that served only 1-2 participants, and it was beyond the scope of the trial to deliver AD to so many clinics, a second cohort was formed in which these 155 participants were randomly assigned at the individual level in a 1:1 ratio to CHW or TAU.

This study was also modified by receipt of a qualitative supplement award from the sponsor to conduct mixed methods research to identify and define barriers and facilitators to implementation of components of the integrated care intervention in primary care clinical settings using an interactive convergent mixed-methods design. The aim of this portion of the study is to better understand the factors that impact the integration of Integrated Care and evidence-based treatments for smoking cessation for those with SMI in primary care settings. Qualitative interviews will be conducted for enrolled participants, CHWs, primary care physician, and stakeholders.

Conditions

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Cigarette Smoking Schizophrenia Bipolar Disorder Depressive Disorder, Major Smoking Cessation

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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Treatment as Usual (TAU) - Cohort 1

Usual care (TAU) for adults with SMI in Massachusetts consists of rehabilitation services publicly funded by the state and traditional fee for service outpatient medical and psychiatric care. Importantly, medical care is not programmatically integrated with the psychiatric rehabilitation services. Participants in this arm will receive no other study-related intervention.Cohort 1 (AD-eligible) comprised participants seen in primary care clinics serving ≥3 enrolled participants.

Group Type ACTIVE_COMPARATOR

Treatment as Usual (TAU)

Intervention Type OTHER

Usual care (TAU) for adults with SMI in Massachusetts consists of rehabilitation services publicly funded by the state and traditional fee for service outpatient medical and psychiatric care. Importantly, medical care is not programmatically integrated with the psychiatric rehabilitation services.

AD + CHW - Cohort 1

Academic detailing (AD) is a targeted continuing medical education (CME) strategy that adapts social marketing techniques, using mixed interactive and didactic formats in individual and group settings integrated into the practice setting to promote beneficial changes in medical care. The aim of AD is to help clinicians understand and adopt targeted evidence-based practices.

Community Health Worker (CHW) will offer to support patients and prescribers to implement smoking cessation treatments that may be requested by patients and/or recommended by prescribers.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Academic Detailing

Intervention Type OTHER

Academic detailing (AD) is a targeted continuing medical education (CME) strategy that adapts social marketing techniques, using mixed interactive and didactic formats in individual and group settings integrated into the practice setting to promote beneficial changes in medical care. AD helps clinicians understand and adopt targeted evidence-based practices and is one of the few Continuing Medical Education (CME) interventions that has consistently demonstrated improved alignment of physician prescribing behavior with evidence-based practice.

Community Health Worker

Intervention Type OTHER

Community Health Worker (CHW) The CHW will offer to support patients and prescribers in health promotion and preventive care in general and specifically to support communication between the primary care provider and patient regarding smoking status, smoking cessation, and to aid implementation of any smoking cessation treatments recommended by prescribers. CHWs will complete the standard CHW certificate training program in general preventive medicine, available through the Boston Public Health Commission. CHWs will then receive the additional specialized training.

AD - Cohort 1

Participant in this arm will have Academic Detailing offered to their primary care clinical staff as described above. Participants who are randomized to this condition will not be offered Community Health Worker support.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Academic Detailing

Intervention Type OTHER

Academic detailing (AD) is a targeted continuing medical education (CME) strategy that adapts social marketing techniques, using mixed interactive and didactic formats in individual and group settings integrated into the practice setting to promote beneficial changes in medical care. AD helps clinicians understand and adopt targeted evidence-based practices and is one of the few Continuing Medical Education (CME) interventions that has consistently demonstrated improved alignment of physician prescribing behavior with evidence-based practice.

CHW - Cohort 2

Community Health Worker (CHW) will offer to support patients and prescribers to implement smoking cessation treatments that may be requested by patients and/or recommended by prescribers.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Community Health Worker

Intervention Type OTHER

Community Health Worker (CHW) The CHW will offer to support patients and prescribers in health promotion and preventive care in general and specifically to support communication between the primary care provider and patient regarding smoking status, smoking cessation, and to aid implementation of any smoking cessation treatments recommended by prescribers. CHWs will complete the standard CHW certificate training program in general preventive medicine, available through the Boston Public Health Commission. CHWs will then receive the additional specialized training.

Treatment as Usual (TAU) - Cohort 2

Usual care (TAU) for adults with SMI in Massachusetts consists of rehabilitation services publicly funded by the state and traditional fee for service outpatient medical and psychiatric care. Importantly, medical care is not programmatically integrated with the psychiatric rehabilitation services. Participants in this arm will receive no other study-related intervention. Cohort 2 (AD-ineligible) comprised participants whose primary care clinic served ≤2 enrolled participants

Group Type ACTIVE_COMPARATOR

Treatment as Usual (TAU)

Intervention Type OTHER

Usual care (TAU) for adults with SMI in Massachusetts consists of rehabilitation services publicly funded by the state and traditional fee for service outpatient medical and psychiatric care. Importantly, medical care is not programmatically integrated with the psychiatric rehabilitation services.

Interventions

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Academic Detailing

Academic detailing (AD) is a targeted continuing medical education (CME) strategy that adapts social marketing techniques, using mixed interactive and didactic formats in individual and group settings integrated into the practice setting to promote beneficial changes in medical care. AD helps clinicians understand and adopt targeted evidence-based practices and is one of the few Continuing Medical Education (CME) interventions that has consistently demonstrated improved alignment of physician prescribing behavior with evidence-based practice.

Intervention Type OTHER

Community Health Worker

Community Health Worker (CHW) The CHW will offer to support patients and prescribers in health promotion and preventive care in general and specifically to support communication between the primary care provider and patient regarding smoking status, smoking cessation, and to aid implementation of any smoking cessation treatments recommended by prescribers. CHWs will complete the standard CHW certificate training program in general preventive medicine, available through the Boston Public Health Commission. CHWs will then receive the additional specialized training.

Intervention Type OTHER

Treatment as Usual (TAU)

Usual care (TAU) for adults with SMI in Massachusetts consists of rehabilitation services publicly funded by the state and traditional fee for service outpatient medical and psychiatric care. Importantly, medical care is not programmatically integrated with the psychiatric rehabilitation services.

Intervention Type OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* adult (18+ years)
* current smoker
* current diagnosis of SMI (e.g. schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, major depressive disorder, etc...)
* currently receiving psychiatric rehabilitation services through CBFS and ACT programs at Bay Cove Human Services and Vinfen Corporation

Exclusion:

* intellectual disability (IQ\<70)

Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No