Trial reportBMC public health2016
Brief advice and active referral for smoking cessation services among community smokers: a study protocol for randomized controlled trial.
Trial report in BMC public health, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT02539875 (Building Capacity and Promoting Smoking Cessation in the Community Via "Quit to Win" Contest 2015), which is not on this map. Cited by 8 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Building Capacity and Promoting Smoking Cessation in the Community Via "Quit to Win" Contest 2015: a Randomized Controlled Trial on Brief Intervention (AWARD Model) and Active Referral to Smoking Cessation Services
Who cites it
8 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 14 citations in OpenAlex.
- Evaluating the Effectiveness of Brief Interventions for Smoking Cessation Performed by Family Doctors.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2024Pooled it
- Comparing different intensities of active referral to smoking cessation services in promoting smoking cessation among community smokers: a study protocol of a cluster randomized controlled trial.BMC public health · 2018Trial
- Intervention With Brief Cessation Advice Plus Active Referral for Proactively Recruited Community Smokers: A Pragmatic Cluster Randomized Clinical Trial.JAMA internal medicine · 2017Trial
- Nurse-led risk-based primary healthcare intervention in midlife women's health management in Hong Kong: a stepped-wedge cluster randomized controlled trial protocol.BMC primary care · 2026Article
- Nurse training to enhance adherence counselling for HIV-tuberculosis coinfection in South Africa: Integrative review.Curationis · 2024Review
- A descriptive study of a Smoke-free Teens Programme to promote smoke-free culture in schools and the community in Hong Kong.BMC public health · 2019Article
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- A Brief Smoking Cessation Intervention for Heavy Drinking Smokers: Treatment Feasibility and Acceptability.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2018Article
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Authors and funding
7 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.
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No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
backgroundMost smokers do not use smoking cessation (SC) services although it increases successful quits. Passive referral providing SC information to smokers is commonly used in SC studies. Little was known about active referral in the community setting. This study aims to motivate community smokers to quit by brief SC advice using a validated AWARD model (Ask, Warn, Advise, Refer and Do-it-again) that adjunct with active referral of smokers to various SC services in Hong Kong. METHODS/
designThis is a single-blinded, parallel three-armed cluster randomized controlled trial (RCT) with two treatment groups of (1) brief SC advice using the AWARD model, active referral to SC services plus a referral card and a health warning leaflet (active referral group) and (2) brief SC advice using AWARD model and health warning leaflet (brief advice group) and a control group receives general very brief advice with a self-help booklet. A total of 1291 smokers will be recruited from 66 clusters (recruitment sessions) with 22 will be allocated to each of the two intervention and one control groups. SC ambassadors will be trained for delivering the interventions and conducting telephone follow-up. The primary outcomes are self-reported 7-days point prevalence (PP) abstinence at 3 and 6 months follow-up. Intention-to-treat principle and multi-level regressions will be used for data analysis. DISCUSSION: This is the first RCT on assessing a model combining brief advice and active referral to SC services among community smokers. The results will inform the practices of SC services and intervention studies.
trial registrationNCT02539875 (ClinicalTrials.gov registry; registered retrospectively on 22 July 2015).
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