Reducing Ethnic Health Disparities: Motivating HIV+ Latinos to Quit Smoking

Completed · Phase 3

Conditions studied: Tobacco Dependence, HIV Infections

In brief

The purpose of this study is to develop and evaluate a brief clinic-based culturally tailored smoking cessation treatment for a largely low-income, Latino, HIV+ population. We will compare this Culturally-Tailored Intervention (CTI) that incorporates a strong social support component and is targeted to the special needs and concerns of a Latino population to a Standard Care Intervention (SCI) control condition, in a randomized controlled trial. We hypothesize that those Latinos receiving the CTI will demonstrate greater biochemically verified smoking abstinence rates at 12-months post-baseline than those receiving the SCI control treatment. All study participants and their participating social supports will be offered use of the nicotine patch.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT00503230

Run by

Butler Hospital

People needed

400

Starts

2005-10-01

Expected to finish

2011-07-01

Last updated by the study team

2013-05-03

Who can join

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

You may qualify if…

• Be receiving care for HIV at one of the participating immunology clinics
• Self-identify as being Latino/Hispanic (defined as being 1st, 2nd or 3rd generation from any of the Spanish-speaking countries of North America, Central America, South America and the Caribbean).
• Be 18 years old or older.
• Be current smokers of cigarettes (past 7 days)
• Speak English or Spanish

You may not qualify if…

• Are pregnant or nursing
• Have uncontrolled hypertension
• Use other forms of tobacco like cigars or chewing tobacco or are using anything else to help them quit smoking
• Are allergic to the nicotine patch or have a skin condition like eczema or psoriasis that makes them unable to use the patch

Where it is running

• Lowell Community Health Center — Lowell, Massachusetts, United States
• Greater New Bedford Community Center — New Bedford, Massachusetts, United States
• Dimock Community Health Center — Roxbury, Massachusetts, United States
• Family Health Center of Worcester — Worcester, Massachusetts, United States
• Montefiore Medical Center — The Bronx, New York, United States
• Rhode Island Hospital HIV Clinic — Providence, Rhode Island, United States
• Butler Hospital — Providence, Rhode Island, United States
• The Miriam Hospital Immunology Clinic — Providence, Rhode Island, United States

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