Status:
COMPLETED
Sustaining Smoking Cessation in Smokers With Kids With Asthma
Lead Sponsor:
The Miriam Hospital
Collaborating Sponsors:
Brown University
University of California, Berkeley
Conditions:
Asthma
Smoking Cessation
Eligibility:
All Genders
18+ years
Phase:
PHASE3
Brief Summary
Parents of Asthmatics Quit Smoking (PAQS-2) is a randomized controlled trial of a smoking cessation intervention for parents who smoke. Children had either a diagnosis of asthma (and an asthma emergen...
Detailed Description
Asthma is one of the most common pediatric diseases affecting 6.7 million children and adolescents (Akinbami et al 2009). Asthma is a leading cause of hospitalizations, emergency department visits, sc...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- In order to be included in the study, participants had to:
- be caregivers for a child (defined as having the child in the home for at least 4 hours per week) between the ages of 3 and 17,
- be current, regular smokers (at least 3 cigarettes per day for the past year)
- be over age 18
- speak and understand English
- have a telephone
- agree to participate in all phases of the study
- have a child with a diagnosis of asthma (asthma groups only)
Exclusion
- if the index child had asthma, child DID NOT have a urgent care/emergency room/hospital visit within 90 days of the first intervention visit
- if the index child was healthy, child DID have a urgent care/emergency room/hospital visit within 90 days of the first intervention visit and had no diagnosis of asthma (or other children in the home with asthma)
- had children with other significant pulmonary disease
- the index child spent less than 4 hours in the home per week
- caregiver exclusively used another form of tobacco (not cigarettes)
- using any form of Nicotine replacement therapy
- using medications to quit smoking
- in a quit smoking program
- another member of family is participating in program
- currently pregnant or planning to become pregnant
- While we did offer the intervention to all smokers in the home, only the caregiver that spent the most time with the child was included in the formal study.
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
October 1 2005
Trial Type :
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation :
ACTUAL
End Date :
December 1 2011
Estimated Enrollment :
573 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT00862368
Start Date
October 1 2005
End Date
December 1 2011
Last Update
April 25 2012
Active Locations (5)
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St. Anne's Hospital
Fall River, Massachusetts, United States, 02721
2
Memorial Hospital of RI
Pawtucket, Rhode Island, United States, 02860
3
Hasbro Children's Hospital
Providence, Rhode Island, United States, 02903
4
The Miriam Hospital
Providence, Rhode Island, United States, 02906