Expert System and Family Assisted Interventions for Chinese Smokers

Completed · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Smoking Cessation

In brief

In this study, we choose to specifically recruit Chinese, the largest ethnic group of the Asian and Pacific Islander community,2 as an initial step to increase our understanding of the role of family or supportive others in the process of smoking cessation among Asian Americans. We propose the following specific aims for the study: 1. Examine the effectiveness of proactive recruitment of Chinese smokers into a smoking cessation treatment program through their family or friends. 2. Test the efficacy of a family assisted intervention using the stages of change approach in promoting smoking cessation in the context of an expert system intervention. 3. Explore the role of supportive and non-supportive behaviors in relation to both short-term and long-term smoking cessation outcomes in the presence of the expert system intervention.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT00714467

Run by

University of California, San Francisco

People needed

1280

Starts

2004-08-01

Expected to finish

2008-12-01

Last updated by the study team

2013-05-29

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• self-identified ethnic Chinese
• men and women
• above age 18
• can read and speak Chinese or English
• reside in the State of California at baseline
• to participate as a supporter, the participant must have a targeted smoker who meet the smoker eligibility criteria who provides consent to participate in the study as a smoker participant
• to participate as a smoker, the participant must have smoked at least 100 cigarettes in lifetime and have smoked at least 5 cigarettes in the past 7 days, and have a supporter who provides consent to be a supporter participant

You may not qualify if…

• smoker participant currently engage in other smoking cessation programs or efforts

Where it is running

• UCSF Langley Porter — San Francisco, California, United States

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