NCT01821885

Effectiveness of Spirometry as a Motivational Tool to Quit Smoking

Effectiveness of Spirometry and the Report of Spirometric Test Results by a Primary Care Physician on Smoking Cessation Rate in Adult Smokers: a Randomized Controlled Trial.

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 335 (actual)
• Sponsor: Basque Health Service · Other Government
• Sex: All
• Age: 40 Years – 80 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The aim of the study is to asses the efficacy of the spirometry and a minimal smoking cessation counselling intervention to quit smoking after a year in patients older than 40 years, smokers of more than 10 packs-year and without a chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) diagnosis.

Conditions

• Smoking Cessation
• COPD

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Spirometry and a brief advice to quit smoking	During a year, recruitment for active smoker patients was done by doctors in primary care medical offices. In the intervention group, after been randomized, one trained nurse completed the questionnaires and did the spirometry with bronchodilator test and set a date with its family doctor who did a minimal smoking cessation counselling intervention and informed the patients about the spirometry results according to established protocol.
BEHAVIORAL	Brief advice to quit smoking	During a year, recruitment for active smokers patients occurred through doctors in primary care medical offices. After be randomized, in de control group, a nurse complete the questionnaires. Below, patients go to the family doctor who will do a minimal smoking cessation counselling intervention.

Timeline

• Start date: 2012-04-01
• Primary completion: 2013-12-01
• Completion: 2015-01-01
• First posted: 2013-04-01
• Last updated: 2015-01-27

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Spain