Support Person Intervention to Promote a Smoking Helpline

Completed · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Tobacco Cessation

In brief

This study is designed to examine if a telephone-based intervention delivered to a support person (i.e., friend, spouse of a smoker) increases the smoker's use of the Minnesota helpline. In addition, the study will examine if the rate of smoker calls to the helpline is greater if the support person receives 3 intervention calls, 1 intervention call, or no calls (written materials only, control condition).

Key facts

Study ID

NCT01331226

Run by

Mayo Clinic

People needed

1020

Starts

2011-07-01

Expected to finish

2015-04-01

Last updated by the study team

2015-04-10

Who can join

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

You may qualify if…

• The support person must
• reside in Minnesota
• be 18 years of age or older
• provide written informed consent
• be a never or former cigarette smoker (no cigarette smoking in the past 6 months)
• want to support a current cigarette smoker (has smoked a total of >1 cigarettes during the past 7 days) who is 18 years of age or older, resides in Minnesota, and has not been enrolled in a helpline or any other cessation program in the last 3 months
• be able and willing to participate in all aspects of the study
• have access to a working telephone
• have current and anticipated contact (any combination of face-to-face, telephone, text messaging, or electronic mail) with the smoker on at least 3 days a week for the 30 week study duration.

You may not qualify if…

• Support persons will be excluded if another support person from the same household has enrolled.

Where it is running

• Mayo CLinic — Rochester, Minnesota, United States

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