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This study aims to examine the efficacy of brief MI delivered by mobile instant messaging tools in promoting smoking cessation among unmotivated smokers with chronic diseases. Participants in the intervention group will receive a brief MI intervention while the control group will receive a placebo intervention.
Smoking plays a causal role in the development of chronic diseases and may increase the risk of disease progression or recurrence, elevate the risk of mortality, and reduce the efficacy of treatment for disease sufferers. However, a majority of smokers with chronic diseases are unmotivated, having no intention to quit. These characteristics underscore the critical need for appropriate and effective smoking cessation interventions targeting this population. Nevertheless, most existing smoking cessation services are generic, and none seems to target smokers suffering from chronic diseases. A systematic review indicated that no study had yet examined the efficacy of a smoking cessation intervention designed specifically for unmotivated smokers with chronic diseases. Though MI was effective in promoting smoking cessation among the general population, was not effective for smokers with chronic diseases, who as has been seen tend to be unmotivated smokers. Brief MI, accordingly, is better suited to reaching these smokers in clinical settings, but the application of this approach to smoking cessation contexts has not been well studied.
The proposed intervention will be designed to promote smoking cessation among unmotivated smokers with chronic diseases. To reduce the influence of the participants' baseline characteristics on the efficacy of the intervention, this study will be designed to motivate them to change a selected unfavourable behaviour as a means to reduce their resistance to the intervention. The foot-in-the-door technique served both to facilitate the recruitment for the study and to enhance the participants' compliance with the intervention, in the latter case by promoting change in their selected unfavourable behaviour as a preliminary to further change. The rationale is that a small successful step increases readiness to take a further, larger step, in this case, smoking cessation.
Given that the exponential growth in the number of users of mobile instant messaging tools, they represent a resource for efforts to promote health and enhance treatment compliance. These were among the considerations that informed the development in this study of an intervention using brief MI delivered by mobile instant messaging tools to facilitate smoking cessation among unmotivated smokers with chronic diseases.
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| Label | Type | Description | Intervention Names |
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| Intervention group | Experimental | The participants in the intervention group will be asked to identify an unfavourable behaviour that they wish to change when filling out the baseline questionnaire. The research nurse will conduct the individual face-to-face brief MI interviews for this purpose, which will last for approximately five to ten minutes. After the face-to-face brief MI interviews, the participants in the intervention group will receive brief MI messages individually by means of mobile instant messaging for six months from the baseline. After six months, the brief MI messages will cease to be delivered to the participants in the intervention group, with whom the research team will then maintain only minimal contact until the 12-month follow-up. |
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| Control group | Placebo Comparator | Participants in the control group will be asked to identify an unfavourable behaviour that they want to change at the baseline but, rather than brief MI interviews delivered face-to-face, received generic health advice consultations on the selected unfavourable behaviour that lasted approximately five to ten minutes. Each participant will receive a self-help smoking cessation booklet titled Be Smart, Quit Smoking! published by the Hong Kong Council on Smoking and Health with information about the negative health consequences of smoking, reasons to quit, strategies for quitting, and smoking cessation services available in Hong Kong along with a public quitline number (specifically, 1833183). Those who express the intention to quit at follow-ups will receive usual smoking cessation support. |
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| Name | Type | Description | Arm Group Labels | Other Names |
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| Brief MI intervention | Behavioral | Brief MI intervention |
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| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| Biochemically validated smoking abstinence at 12 months | The participants who self-reported not smoking within the past seven days will be invited to submit to a biochemical verification test of smoking abstinence, including an exhaled CO test and a salivary cotinine test. Smoking abstinence is defined as an exhaled CO level of less than 4 ppm and a saliva cotinine level lower than 15 ng/ml. | 12-month follow-up |
| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| Biochemically validated smoking abstinence at 6 months | The participants who self-reported not smoking within the past seven days will be invited to submit to a biochemical verification test of smoking abstinence, including an exhaled CO test and a salivary cotinine test. Smoking abstinence is defined as an exhaled CO level of less than 4 ppm and a saliva cotinine level lower than 15 ng/ml. | 6-month follow-up |
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Exclusion Criteria:
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| Name | Affiliation | Role |
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| Ho Cheung William Li, PhD | Chinese University of Hong Kong | Principal Investigator |
| Facility | Status | City | State | ZIP | Country | Contacts |
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| University of Hong Kong | Hong Kong | Hong Kong |
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| ID | Term |
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| D016540 | Smoking Cessation |
| ID | Term |
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| D015438 | Health Behavior |
| D001519 | Behavior |
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| Placebo intervention |
| Behavioral |
Generic health advice consultations and self-help smoking cessation booklets |
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| Self-reported smoking abstinence | Self-reported not smoking within the past seven days | 3-, 6-, or 12-month follow-ups |
| Intention to quit | Individual's readiness to quit smoking within six months | 3-, 6-, or 12-month follow-ups |
| Self-reported smoking reduction of at least 50% | Reduction in cigarette consumption from the baseline by at least 50% | 3-, 6-, or 12-month follow-ups |
| Quit attempts | A period of intentional abstinence of more than 24 hours | 3-, 6-, or 12-month follow-ups |
| Self-reported behavioural change | Individual's perceived modification of the selected unfavourable behaviour | 3-, 6-, or 12-month follow-ups |