NCT05530083

Group Education Helps Smoking Cessation and Hypertension Control

A Cluster Randomized Trial to Evaluate the Effect of Group Education on Smoking Cessation and Blood Pressure in Smoking Elderly Males With Stage 1 and 2 Hypertension

• Status: Not Yet Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 2,000 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine · Academic / Other
• Sex: Male
• Age: 65 Years – 84 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Smoking elderly males with stage 1 and 2 hypertension who currently smoked at least one cigarette per day and were willing to quit smoke will be invited to this cluster randomized, controlled, interventional, open clinical trial. The investigators will provide participants with group education of smoking cessation and their blood pressure measured at clinic at the sixth month is the primary endpoint. The investigators aim to explore how group education of smoking cessation effects smoking cessation, hypertension control and cardiovascular events.

Conditions

• Smoking Cessation
• Hypertension

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	group education	Group education is one of strategies and behavioural interventions of smoking cessation. Lectures, group meeting for mutual support, discussion of coping skills and suggestions for prevention relapse can help smokers quit smoking by providing support and encouragement from people in same condition.
BEHAVIORAL	conventional smoking cessation management	Including regular follow-up of smoking status and giving advice of smoking cessation

Timeline

• Start date: 2022-10-12
• Primary completion: 2027-01-01
• Completion: 2027-01-01
• First posted: 2022-09-07
• Last updated: 2022-10-03