Tobacco-Focused Patient Navigation to Address Barriers to Utilization of Community-Based Smoking Cessation Services in Primary Care

Completed

Conditions studied: Minority Smokers

In brief

Patient navigators have been shown to assist people seeking cancer screening and other medical services. The purpose of this study is to see whether a patient navigator can link smokers to available community resources shown to help smokers quit smoking.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT01678118

Run by

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

People needed

16

Starts

2011-04-01

Expected to finish

2021-07-20

Last updated by the study team

2021-07-27

Who can join

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

You may qualify if…

• Age ≥ 18 years
• Self-reported current daily smoker, as verified with a portable alveolar carbon monoxide (CO) analyzer (24 hour point prevalence); CO levels ≥ 8 ppm.
• English and/or Spanish-speaking
• Referred to the navigation program by their primary care clinician
• At baseline, participants report at least thinking about quitting (i.e., Contemplation or Preparation stages of readiness to quit).

You may not qualify if…

• Serious, untreated psychiatric illness (e.g., schizophrenia,) or active substance abuse likely to preclude adherence to the protocol

Where it is running

• Heritage Health Center — New York, New York, United States
• Ralph Lauren Center for Cancer Care and Prevention — New York, New York, United States

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