Quitlink : A Leveraging Solution to Tobacco Counseling

Completed · Phase 3

Conditions studied: Smoking

In brief

Primary: To test whether the delivery of A3-5 smoking cessation counseling (Assess, Assist, Arrange) in primary care offices is enhanced by a system that couples (1) an expanded vital sign intervention with (2) fax referral of preparation-stage patients for telephone counseling and (3) feedback to the provider. The question will be examined in a randomized trial, with practices as the unit of analysis and with a control intervention consisting of a conventional vital sign intervention. The experiment will therefore compare what intervention and control practices accomplish beyond simply identifying patients who use tobacco. Secondary: To assess contextual factors that might affect implementation of the intervention and account for its ultimate success or failure. In particular, to assess: (1) environmental and practice-level factors that affect practices' ability to successfully implement and use the intervention and; (2) patient characteristics beyond readiness to change (i.e., age, gender, race/ethnicity) that affect willingness to use the quit line and complete counseling.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT00112268

Run by

Virginia Ambulatory Care Outcomes Research Network

People needed

3200

Starts

2005-06-01

Expected to finish

2006-07-01

Last updated by the study team

2006-10-27

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Current use of tobacco
• Age 18 or older
• Visit with a clinician that day
• Patient at one of the 16 practices in the study

You may not qualify if…

• Unable to participate in a self-administered exit survey

Where it is running

• Virginia Ambulatory Care Outcomes Network (ACORN) — Richmond, Virginia, United States

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