Study Results
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Basic Information
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NOT_YET_RECRUITING
NA
40 participants
INTERVENTIONAL
2023-12-01
2025-12-01
Brief Summary
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* Do unmotivated smokers treated with STMI exhibit higher abstinence rate than those in the control group?
* Do unmotivated smokers treated with STMI show higher intention to quit than those in the control group?
* Do unmotivated smokers treated with STMI show higher smoking reduction rates than those in the control group?
* Do unmotivated smokers treated with STMI show lower level of depressive symptoms than those in the control group?
* Do unmotivated smokers treated with STMI show higher adherence than those in the control group?
* Does STMI show higher consent rates than those the control?
* How does STMI affect the smoking behaviors in unmotivated smokers?
Participants will be randomized to (1) STMI or (2) control group for smoking cessation services via telephone, and then be invited to join a semi-structured interview.
Detailed Description
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In the first to third sessions, the RA will engage in small talk with the participants for 30 minutes. The RA will talk to the participants on the proposed topics including the weather, activities the participant engaged in last week and at weekends, music, food, and other hobbies, all of which were recommended in previous literature as topics that interest most people and create curiosity and enjoyment rather than animosity. From the fourth session onwards, the RA will add 30 minutes of MI about smoking cessation after engaging in small talk. During MI delivery, the RA will use core MI skills, including open-ended questions, affirmation, reflective listening, and summary, elicit-provide-elicit, evoking change talk, and roll with resistance to move the participants from engaging (first process of MI) to planning (last process of MI), as in YQL and other smoking cessation projects that use MI. The RA will aim to go through the engaging process in the fourth session, focusing process in the fifth session, focusing and evoking in the sixth session, and evoking and planning in the seventh and eighth sessions. When transitioning from small talk to MI, some simple transitional sentences are suggested, such as: "We have been talking for quite a while since our contact at the first time. Actually, I am quite interested in understanding your smoking behaviors. Do you mind talking with me about that?" If the participants refuse, the RA will continue to deliver small talk and repeat asking in the next session if the participants can move to talk about smoking or not.
Conditions
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Study Design
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RANDOMIZED
PARALLEL
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
NONE
Study Groups
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Small Talk Motivational Interviewing (STMI)
during the 8 session of smoking cessation, the first three sessions will be used to do small talks with the participant. And then from the fourth session onwards, the RA will add 30 minutes of MI about smoking cessation after engaging in small talk.
Small Talk Motivational Interviewing
Combining small talks and skills on Motivational Interviewing in the smoking cessation services
Control (only MI)
Another two RA with at least one-year experience on counselling will be delivering the control group. Participant will receive MI for 30 minutes in each of the first three sessions and 1 hour in each of the remaining sessions. The control group will also receive the same duration and content of boosters as in the intervention group.
No interventions assigned to this group
Interventions
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Small Talk Motivational Interviewing
Combining small talks and skills on Motivational Interviewing in the smoking cessation services
Eligibility Criteria
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Inclusion Criteria
* Have smoked any smoking products in the past 30 days
* do not intend to quit in the coming 30 days
* did not have a past-year quit attempt lasting for 24 hours or more
* are not currently in any smoking cessation programs
* are able to speak Cantonese and read Chinese
Exclusion Criteria
18 Years
25 Years
ALL
Yes
Sponsors
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The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
OTHER
Responsible Party
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Principal Investigators
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Ka Wai Katherine Lam, Phd
Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
the polytechnic university of hong kong
Locations
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Katherine Lam
Hong Kong, Hong Kong,China, Hong Kong
Countries
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Central Contacts
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Other Identifiers
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Small talk_smoking cessation
Identifier Type: -
Identifier Source: org_study_id