Effectiveness and Cost-effectiveness of a Tailored Text Message Programme (MiQuit) for Smoking Cessation in Pregnancy

NCT ID: NCT03231553

Last Updated: 2020-04-21

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

1000 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2017-11-30

Study Completion Date

2020-01-15

Brief Summary

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The trial aims to determine whether or not MiQuit (text-message support programme) is effective when offered in addition to standard behavioural support for smoking cessation in pregnancy.

Detailed Description

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Smoking in pregnancy is expensive; in the UK in 2010 the annual smoking-attributable maternal and infant health care costs were estimated at up to £87.5 million. In high income countries 13% to 25% of pregnant women smoke and rates are increasing in developing ones. In the UK in 2010 26% of pregnant women smoked with highest rates seen amongst younger, socially disadvantaged women.

However, pregnancy is the life event which most motivates smoking cessation attempts and 50+% of pregnant smokers try stopping, hence smoking cessation support offered in pregnancy is likely to be especially beneficial. Regrettably, in pregnancy, there is only strong efficacy evidence for using either face-to-face or 'self-help' stop smoking support. Although nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) is widely-used by UK pregnant smokers this has at best, borderline efficacy.

Self-help support (SHS) almost doubles the likelihood of smoking cessation in late pregnancy. However SHS programmes which help pregnant smokers to quit were all developed before easily-accessible technologies became widely available.

Text message SHS smoking cessation programmes are highly-acceptable; those trialled with non-pregnant smokers in the US and UK have demonstrated efficacy. Unfortunately, neither programme is appropriate in pregnancy as they make no mention of pregnancy which for most pregnant smokers is the very reason they try quitting; consequently many pregnant smokers would likely find these programmes' advice irrelevant and ignore it.

Funded by CRUK to remedy the lack of acceptable self-help cessation support for pregnant smokers, we developed MiQuit, a text-message, smoking cessation SHS programme for pregnant smokers. MiQuit advice is relevant to pregnancy as it is highly-tailored to gestation. We evaluated MiQuit in two RCTs. The first CRUK-funded trial (n=207) demonstrated acceptability. Subsequently, with NIHR funding we refined MiQuit and tested this in a second RCT which demonstrated the feasibility of recruiting from UK National Health Service (NHS) settings to a multi-centre RCT. Again estimated efficacy was encouraging; in MiQuit and control groups, prolonged abstinence from smoking, validated in late pregnancy was 5.4% and 2.0% respectively.

To efficiently determine whether or not MiQuit works for smoking cessation, we are conducting a third RCT with an almost identical design. The efficacy of the MiQuit system will be assessed by combining the findings, using Trial Sequential Analysis methods, from this trial with the findings from the previous two MiQuit trials. Without requiring an expensive, large RCT this study will tell whether or not MiQuit is efficacious for smoking cessation in pregnancy.

Conditions

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Smoking Cessation Pregnancy Related

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

OTHER

Blinding Strategy

SINGLE

Investigators

Study Groups

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Intervention

Receive usual NHS antenatal care and any NHS smoking cessation support which they choose to access plus an NHS leaflet giving advice on stopping smoking.

Receive MiQuit text message cessation programme.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

MiQuit text message support programme

Intervention Type OTHER

MiQuit is an automated, responsive text message support programme lasting 12 weeks which sends texts containing self-help smoking cessation support and advice to participants mobile phones.

Control

Receive usual NHS antenatal care and any NHS smoking cessation support which they choose to access plus an NHS leaflet giving advice on stopping smoking.

Group Type NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

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MiQuit text message support programme

MiQuit is an automated, responsive text message support programme lasting 12 weeks which sends texts containing self-help smoking cessation support and advice to participants mobile phones.

Intervention Type OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Pregnant and less than 25 weeks gestation
* Smoking at least 5 cigarettes per day pre-pregnancy
* Smoking at least 1 cigarette on a typical day during pregnancy
* Aged 16 or over
* Agrees to accept information to assist cessation
* Owns or has primary use of a mobile phone
* Familiar with sending and receiving text messages
* Able to understand written English (text messages are in English only) and consent issues explained in English.
* Able to give informed consent

Exclusion Criteria

* Already enrolled in another text service to assist smoking cessation
* Already enrolled in a smoking cessation study
* Having already participated in the study in an earlier pregnancy
Minimum Eligible Age

16 Years

Eligible Sex

FEMALE

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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University of Nottingham

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Responsibility Role SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

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Tim Coleman

Role: STUDY_DIRECTOR

University of Nottingham

Locations

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Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust

Reading, Berkshire, United Kingdom

Site Status

Birmingham Womens NHS Foundation Trust

Edgbaston, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Site Status

Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Trust

Crewe, Cheshire, United Kingdom

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North Cumbria University Hospitals NHS Trust

Carlisle, Cumbria, United Kingdom

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University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust

Derby, Derbyshire, United Kingdom

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Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust

Plymouth, Devon, United Kingdom

Site Status

Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust

Multiple Locations, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom

Site Status

East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust

Burnley, Lancashire, United Kingdom

Site Status

United Lincolnshire Hospitals Trust

Multiple Locations, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom

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Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Newcastle, Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom

Site Status

Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Trust

Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom

Site Status

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom

Site Status

University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust

Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, United Kingdom

Site Status

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

North Shields, Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom

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University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust

Birmingham, , United Kingdom

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Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Chester, , United Kingdom

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City Hospitals Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust

Sunderland, , United Kingdom

Site Status

Countries

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United Kingdom

References

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Coleman T, Clark M, Welch C, Whitemore R, Leonardi-Bee J, Cooper S, Hewitt C, Jones M, Sutton S, Watson J, Daykin K, Ussher M, Parrott S, Naughton F. Effectiveness of offering tailored text message, self-help smoking cessation support to pregnant women who want information on stopping smoking: MiQuit3 randomised controlled trial and meta-analysis. Addiction. 2022 Apr;117(4):1079-1094. doi: 10.1111/add.15715. Epub 2021 Nov 5.

Reference Type DERIVED
PMID: 34636086 (View on PubMed)

Whitemore R, Leonardi-Bee J, Naughton F, Sutton S, Cooper S, Parrott S, Hewitt C, Clark M, Ussher M, Jones M, Torgerson D, Coleman T. Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of a tailored text-message programme (MiQuit) for smoking cessation in pregnancy: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial (RCT) and meta-analysis. Trials. 2019 May 22;20(1):280. doi: 10.1186/s13063-019-3341-4.

Reference Type DERIVED
PMID: 31118090 (View on PubMed)

Other Identifiers

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17065

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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