Improving the Delivery of Smoking Cessation Guidelines in Hospitalized Veterans
Completed · Not applicable
Conditions studied: Cigarette Smoking
In brief
The primary objective of this study is to determine whether a nurse-initiated intervention, which couples brief inpatient counseling and proactive telephone counseling by a centralized tobacco quitline, improves 6-month cessation rates in hospitalized VA smokers. If proven effective, the proposed intervention will provide a practical strategy to enhance the adoption and implementation of recommended smoking cessation procedures in VA hospitals, and will demonstrate the utility of quitlines in preventing relapse in hospitalized smokers once they leave the hospital.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT00816036
- Run by
- US Department of Veterans Affairs
- People needed
- 898
- Starts
- 2009-05-01
- Expected to finish
- 2013-08-01
- Last updated by the study team
- 2015-04-27
Who can join
Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.
You may qualify if…
- Patients: The study sample will include general medical inpatients, aged 18 or older, who smoke at least one cigarette per day on average, regardless of their willingness to quit smoking. To increase applicability of study results, the goal is to enroll patients with characteristics that reflect the full range and distribution of patients observed in clinical practice. Current smokers transferred from intensive care units (or other monitored beds) to a general medical ward will be eligible.
- Nurses: The study sample will include staff nurses who are assigned to a general medicine inpatient unit at one of the participating sites.
You may not qualify if…
- Hospitalization for less than 18 hours (e.g., patients admitted for overnight observation);
- Acute medical decomposition (e.g., acute respiratory failure requiring intubation, cardiac arrest, septic shock);
- Altered mental status;
- Unstable psychiatric disorder (e.g., acute psychosis);
- Dementia;
- Communication barrier (unable to speak English, hard of hearing, aphasic);
- Pregnancy;
- Terminal illness (<12 month life expectancy);
- No access to a phone or the absence of a permanent address;
- Admitted for treatment of substance abuse.
- No patient will be included unless they are able to provide informed consent and agree to be contacted by telephone during follow-up (to assess smoking status).
Where it is running
- VA Eastern Colorado Health Care System, Denver, CO — Denver, Colorado, United States
- Iowa City VA Health Care System, Iowa City, IA — Iowa City, Iowa, United States
- Minneapolis VA Health Care System, Minneapolis, MN — Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
- VA Medical Center, Omaha — Omaha, Nebraska, United States
Full record on ClinicalTrials.gov
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