NCT02601521

Comparative Effectiveness of Two Tobacco Cessation Interventions for Employees of Partners HealthCare, Inc.

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 106 (actual)
• Sponsor: Massachusetts General Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Specific Aim: To conduct a randomized controlled trial among permanent employees of Partners HealthCare, Inc., and their adult dependents, who are current tobacco smokers. The trial will compare two interventions designed to help smokers stop using tobacco: (1) External Coaching Program (Standard Care) and (2) Internal Coaching Program, a chronic disease management strategy for treating tobacco use and dependence.

Conditions

• Smoking Cessation
• Tobacco Use Disorder

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Internal tobacco coach	The internal coaching program will provide cognitive-behavioral counseling and medication adherence support for smokers who are ready to quit in the next 3 months It consists of: 1. Telephone counseling by the Tobacco Coach (8 calls over 12 weeks). supplemented by automated phone calls using interactive voice response. At each IVR contact, smokers can request a call back from the Tobacco Coach. Smokers who are not quit after 3 months can restart into the 12-week counseling program. 2. The Tobacco Coach will assist smokers in choosing pharmacotherapy and in obtaining a prescription from the smoker's physician. 3. Support and monitoring for 12 months using automated phone calls. If relapse occurs, the smoker will have the option to return to the active 12-week program.
BEHAVIORAL	External tobacco coach	Referral to Massachusetts Smokers Helpline (telephone quitline operated by the Massachusetts Tobacco Control Program) for proactive telephone counseling.

Timeline

• Start date: 2015-11-01
• Primary completion: 2019-09-01
• Completion: 2020-03-01
• First posted: 2015-11-10
• Last updated: 2021-02-24

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States