Efficacy of Proactive Telephone Counseling for Pregnant Smokers Enrolled in a Managed Care Organization
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ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00181909 |
Recruitment Status :
Completed
First Posted : September 16, 2005
Last Update Posted : November 28, 2006
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Condition or disease | Intervention/treatment | Phase |
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Pregnancy Smoking Cessation | Behavioral: Smoking cessation counseling delivered by telephone | Phase 3 |
Study Type : | Interventional (Clinical Trial) |
Enrollment : | 434 participants |
Allocation: | Randomized |
Intervention Model: | Parallel Assignment |
Masking: | None (Open Label) |
Primary Purpose: | Treatment |
Study Start Date : | September 2001 |
Study Completion Date : | June 2005 |

- Biochemically-validated 7-day point prevalence tobacco abstinence at end of pregnancy
- Biochemically-validated 7-day point prevalence tobacco abstinence at 3 months postpartum
- Self-reported significant (>50%) reduction in tobacco use
- Quit attempt of >24 hours duration from enrollment to end of pregnancy

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Ages Eligible for Study: | 18 Years and older (Adult, Older Adult) |
Sexes Eligible for Study: | Female |
Accepts Healthy Volunteers: | No |
Inclusion Criteria:
- Pregnant women
- current cigarette smoker (smoked >1 cigarette in the past 7 days)
- 18 years old or older
- Willing to consider altering their smoking behavior during their pregnancy
Exclusion Criteria:
- More than 26 weeks' gestation at study entry
- No telephone access
- Not planning to live in New England for 1 year
- Unable to read and speak English

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Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT00181909
United States, Massachusetts | |
Massachusetts General Hospital | |
Boston, Massachusetts, United States, 02114 | |
Tufts Health Plan | |
Waltham, Massachusetts, United States |
Principal Investigator: | Nancy A Rigotti, MD | Massachusetts General Hospital | |
Study Director: | Elyse R Park, PhD | Massachusetts General Hospital |
Publications automatically indexed to this study by ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier (NCT Number):
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT00181909 |
Other Study ID Numbers: |
2000-P-002438 |
First Posted: | September 16, 2005 Key Record Dates |
Last Update Posted: | November 28, 2006 |
Last Verified: | September 2005 |
Pregnancy Smoking cessation |