Survey of Smokers Treated in the Emergency Department (ED) on Ownership and Usage of Cell Phones

Completed

Conditions studied: Smoking

In brief

To study ownership and use of cell phones in low-income smokers. This may help us better understand the impact of cell phone ownership plans on low income smokers' access to quitlines. Use of quitlines may be impeded by limited access to landline phones and limited airtime minutes on cell phones.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT01820533

Run by

Yale University

People needed

775

Starts

2013-04-01

Expected to finish

2013-07-01

Last updated by the study team

2014-08-22

Who can join

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

You may qualify if…

• Age 18 or over
• speak and understand English
• willing and able to give informed consent
• have smoked more than 100 cigarettes lifetime
• are currently a daily or some day smoker

You may not qualify if…

• too ill or unable to consent
• not interested in participation
• actively psychotic or mentally ill and unable to give consent
• in police custody
• resides in an extended care facility.

Where it is running

• Yale University — New Haven, Connecticut, United States

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