NCT06853483

School-EduSmoke: A Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial for Promoting Smoking Cessation Among Parents of Schoolchildren

• Status: Enrolling By Invitation
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 700 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Huazhong University of Science and Technology · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: —
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This study is a pragmatic two-group, multi-center, randomized controlled superiority trial, including an internal pilot, economic evaluation and process evaluation, aiming to assess the impact of a school-based comprehensive intervention on smoking cessation actions among parents who smoke.

Detailed description

The School-EduSmoke project will be based on the Behavior change wheel (BCW) and theoretical domain framework. The goal of our project is to promote smoking cessation actions by parents through smoking cessation education for children and their parents in schools. The programme will enhance the implementation of smoking cessation behaviours by identifying key risk factors that influence smoking behaviour, helping to design specific interventions that will particularly help to address ambivalence and defensiveness among smokers. A set of randomized controlled trials will be used to evaluate the effectiveness of the intervention. The findings will provide evidence and support for the provision of low-cost, low-resource, widely accessible smoking cessation support to the smoking community, thereby promoting the effective implementation of smoke-free health actions.

Conditions

• Smoking Cessation

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Family-School based smoking cessation intervention package	The Family-School based smoking cessation intervention programme will be developed using the multiple strategies provided by the BCW framework, with face-to-face + online as the primary mode of implementation. Specifically, educational training based on the school curriculum will be conducted to create a supportive environment for smokers to quit, guide smokers to discover motivation to quit, encourage smokers to cope with key barriers to quitting, as well as incorporate relapse prevention strategies, using formats such as online videos and supplemental materials, with interventions designed to help students and parents of smokers to understand the health hazards of smoking, to enhance cessation action and supportive skills, and inspire healthy action.

Timeline

• Start date: 2025-05-03
• Primary completion: 2026-03-01
• Completion: 2026-06-01
• First posted: 2025-03-03
• Last updated: 2025-09-09

Locations

1 site across 1 country: China