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Reaching Rural Cancer Survivors Who Smoke Using Text-Based Program

Reaching Rural Cancer Survivors Who Smoke Using Text-Based Cessation Interventions

Status
Recruiting
Phases
Phase 3
Study type
Interventional
Source
ClinicalTrials.gov
Registry ID
NCT05008848
Enrollment
600
Registered
2021-08-17
Start date
2022-04-01
Completion date
2027-08-01
Last updated
2026-09-02

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Conditions

Cigarette Smoking-Related Carcinoma

Brief summary

This phase III trial compares the effect of text-based cessation intervention to a manual in helping rural cancer patients who smoke, quit. Text-based scheduled gradual reduction may reduce the frequency of cigarette use to zero and may be effective in quitting smoking.

Detailed description

PRIMARY OBJECTIVES: I. To evaluate the efficacy of an eight-week text-based scheduled gradual reduction (SGR) intervention (a personalized eight-week reduction schedule paired with National Cancer Institute's \[NCI's\] Smokefree.TXT) compared to a control intervention (NCI Clearing the Air Cessation Booklet) on biochemically-validated smoking cessation six-month post-quit date in rural cancer survivors. SECONDARY OBJECTIVE: I. Compare the efficacy of the eight-week text-based SGR intervention and a control intervention on Linear Analog Self-Assessment (LASA)-6 overall quality of life (QOL) at 30-days post-quit date and six-months post-quit date. OUTLINE: Patients are randomized to 1 of 2 groups. GROUP I: Patients participate in schedule gradual reduction program over 8 weeks to reduce the frequency of cigarette use. Patients also receive cessation support messages via text messages for 12 weeks. GROUP II: Patients receive NCI's Clearing the Air booklet to help plan to gradually quit smoking. After completion of study, patients are followed up at 6 months.

Interventions

BEHAVIORALSmoking Cessation Intervention

Participate in schedule gradual reduction program

OTHERHealth Promotion and Education

Receive cessation support messages

OTHERInformational Intervention

Receive NCI's Clearing the Air booklet

OTHERQuestionnaire Administration

Ancillary studies

Sponsors

Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology
Lead SponsorOTHER
National Cancer Institute (NCI)
CollaboratorNIH

Study design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE

Eligibility

Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
No

Inclusion criteria

* Have a cancer diagnosis within the past 10 years, and can currently be receiving curative treatment * Not currently on hospice * Currently smokes \>= 5 cigarettes daily * Lives in a nonmetro/rural county (defined as having a Rural Urban Continuum Code \[RUCC\] code of 4-9) * Patient interested in participating in a smoking cessation program, and not currently participating in a smoking cessation clinical trial * Not currently using any smoking cessation pharmacotherapy (e.g. nicotine replacement therapy, bupropion or varenicline), or currently participating in any cessation program * Patient has a cell phone or smart phone device with texting ability * In order to complete the mandatory patient-completed measures, participants must be able to speak and read English * Age \>= 18 years * Participant must be willing to provide a urine sample.

Exclusion criteria

* Psychiatric illness which would prevent the patient from giving informed consent * Patients with impaired decision-making capacity are not eligible for this study.

Design outcomes

Primary

MeasureTime frameDescription
Biochemically validated tobacco cessationUp to 6 months post-quit dateResponse will be defined as (1) urine cotinine levels \< 50 ng/ml or (2) urine cotinine levels \>=50 ng/ml and an urine anabasine level \< 2 ng/ml if a patient self-reports vaping use or the use of nicotine replacement therapy (NRT). Patients who do not return at 6 months post-quit date for the cotinine assessment (and anabasine, if applicable) will be deemed non-responders. The analysis population is defined as all randomized and eligible patients. The primary evaluation of the primary outcome will be the covariate-adjusted intervention effect (adjusted odds ratio) obtained from a multiple logistic regression model adjusted for the three stratification factors baseline daily cigarette consumption, age, and sex as well as the potential confounding variables cancer diagnosis, cancer type, receipt of chemotherapy, receipt of radiation therapy, and active treatment.

Secondary

MeasureTime frameDescription
Serially measured overall quality of life (QoL) scores obtained at baseline and at 30-days and 6-months post-quite dateUp to 6-months post-quit dateAt a given measurement time point, the patient-reported overall QoL score will be obtained from a linear analogue self-assessment scale (LASA), which is an 11-point scoring scale (0, 1, …, 10) where 0 indicates as bad as can be and 10 indicates as good as can be. A linear mixed model will be used to compare the average difference between the randomized arms across the two post-randomization time points after adjusting for the baseline overall QoL score, the three stratification factors baseline daily cigarette consumption, age, and sex as well as the potential confounding variables cancer diagnosis, cancer type, receipt of chemotherapy, receipt of radiation therapy, and active treatment.

Countries

United States

Contacts

CONTACTDevon Noonan, PhD, MPH, FNP-BC
devon.noonan@duke.edu919-613-9130
STUDY_CHAIRDevon Noonan, PhD, MPH, FNP-BC

Duke School of Nursing

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Data processed: Sep 3, 2026