Protecting the 'Hood Against Tobacco
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Purpose
Among all racial/ethnic groups, African Americans have the greatest risk of becoming ill or dying from tobacco-related diseases. Because of this disproportionate disease burden, it is particularly urgent that researchers focusing on tobacco control partner with African American communities. Intervention strategies which hold the tobacco industry accountable for its behavior are effective in changing views of tobacco use. In earlier work, the investigators found that information from internal tobacco industry documents, when shown to African American smokers, stimulated reflection about quitting and interest in disseminating information about industry targeting behaviors to others. However, to date there have been no attempts to utilize the information in industry documents as part of a smoking cessation intervention. In this project, the investigators will test whether a community co-developed, tailored quit-smoking program featuring exposures to African American-specific tobacco industry documents and media exercises in addition to proven individual quitting strategies can increase the number of people who quit smoking at six months and one year, as compared with usual care.
The specific aims of the project are to:
- test, using statistics, how well an innovative community-based, culturally tailored quit-smoking program for African Americans works at 6 and 12 months;
- test selected variables for how well they predict who will return to smoking;
- use interviews to identify additional individual and/or community factors associated with successful quitting or relapse; and
- collect information to evaluate the overall effectiveness of the CARA project collaborative efforts in developing and sustaining the project over time, enhancing community awareness of tobacco issues, and creation or enhancement of community tobacco control resources.
| Condition | Intervention |
|---|---|
|
Smoking |
Behavioral: tobacco cessation program |
| Study Type: | Interventional |
| Study Design: | Allocation: Randomized Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment Masking: Open Label Primary Purpose: Treatment |
| Official Title: | Protecting the 'Hood Against Tobacco: Cessation Project |
- Smoking cessation (cotinine validation) [ Time Frame: at 6 and 12 months ]
- Qualitative interviews
| Estimated Enrollment: | 270 |
| Study Start Date: | July 2003 |
| Study Completion Date: | June 2007 |
| Primary Completion Date: | February 2007 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure) |
Among all racial/ethnic groups, African Americans have the greatest risk of becoming ill or dying from tobacco-related diseases. Because of this disproportionate disease burden, it is particularly urgent that researchers focusing on tobacco control partner with African American communities. Intervention strategies which hold the tobacco industry accountable for its behavior are effective in changing views of tobacco use. In earlier work, we found that information from internal tobacco industry documents, when shown to African American smokers, stimulated reflection about quitting and interest in disseminating information about industry targeting behaviors to others. However, to date there have been no attempts to utilize the information in industry documents as part of a smoking cessation intervention. In this project, we will test whether a community co-developed, tailored quit-smoking program featuring exposures to African American-specific tobacco industry documents and media exercises in addition to proven individual quitting strategies can increase the number of people who quit smoking at six months and one year, as compared with usual care.
The specific aims of the project are to:
- test, using statistics, how well an innovative community-based, culturally tailored quit-smoking program for African Americans works at 6 and 12 months;
- test selected variables for how well they predict who will return to smoking;
- use interviews to identify additional individual and/or community factors associated with successful quitting or relapse; and
- collect information to evaluate the overall effectiveness of the CARA project collaborative efforts in developing and sustaining the project over time, enhancing community awareness of tobacco issues, and creation or enhancement of community tobacco control resources.
Eligibility| Ages Eligible for Study: | 21 Years and older |
| Genders Eligible for Study: | Both |
| Accepts Healthy Volunteers: | Yes |
Inclusion Criteria:
- African American adults who have used tobacco in the last month
Exclusion Criteria:
- Unable to read or speak English
- Dependence on other substances (except for marijuana)
- Disabling health conditions that would prevent participation
Contacts and Locations| United States, California | |
| University of California San Francisco | |
| San Francisco, California, United States, 94143 | |
| Principal Investigator: | Ruth E Malone, RN, PhD | Associate Professor UCSF |
More Information
No publications provided
| Responsible Party: | Ruth Malone, Professor, University of California, San Francisco |
| ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT00187603 History of Changes |
| Other Study ID Numbers: | 12AT-1700 |
| Study First Received: | September 13, 2005 |
| Last Updated: | May 5, 2008 |
| Health Authority: | United States: Institutional Review Board |
Keywords provided by University of California, San Francisco:
|
tobacco cessation smoking smoking cessation |
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
|
Smoking Habits |
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on May 23, 2013