Status:
COMPLETED
Duration of Follow-Up Counselling on Smoking Cessation Outcomes
Lead Sponsor:
National University Hospital, Singapore
Conditions:
Smoking Cessation
Eligibility:
All Genders
Phase:
NA
Brief Summary
Smoking cessation improves mortality, even in patients with existing smoking-related morbidity. Telephone follow-up after smoking cessation counselling as been shown to be an important method to provi...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- Current smokers among outpatients, including hospital employees, who provide informed consent for enrollment in the smoking cessation program
Exclusion
- Subjects who decline smoking cessation or who do not provide informed consent
- Subjects who are participating or will be participating in other smoking cessation programs within the next six months
- Subjects who are currently using smoking cessation medications
- Subjects who cannot be followed up for at least six months, for instance, subjects who would be resigning and going overseas within the next six months
- Subjects with language limitations that would impede completion of self-administered questionnaires
- Subjects who are difficult to communicate with over the telephone (e.g. having speech or hearing problems)
- Subjects with cognitive impairments that would impede counselling and follow-up
- Subjects with no telephone number
- Subjects who are too sick to receive smoking cessation counselling
- Subjects with limited life expectancy (e.g. metastatic cancer)
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
June 1 2013
Trial Type :
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation :
ACTUAL
End Date :
March 18 2016
Estimated Enrollment :
11 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT01893502
Start Date
June 1 2013
End Date
March 18 2016
Last Update
April 7 2017
Active Locations (1)
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National University Hospital
Singapore, Singapore, Singapore, 119228