Mental Health Issue
Conditions
Keywords
smoking cessation service, youth smoker
Brief summary
This project is funded by Department of Health. We will run a quitline which provides telephone smoking cessation counseling to youth smokers aged 25 or below. After baseline counseling based on trans-theoretical model, follow-up counseling will be provided by trained counselors (i.e. nursing students or students from other healthrelated disciplines) at 1 week, 1, 3, 6, 9 and 12 months. It is expected that the quitline can assist youth smokers to quit smoking, thus saving the healthcare cost attributed to smoking in long-term.
Detailed description
This project will last for 15 months (from 1st Dec 2020 to 28th Feb 2022). Prior to commencement, a month will be spent on preparation, including setting up the quitline and website, designing and printing publicity materials, connecting with secondary and post-secondary schools and training peer counsellors. We will operate the quitline for 15 months and provide telephone counselling for eligible youth smokers. Self-reported quitters at 6-month follow-up will be invited for biochemical validation.
Interventions
BEHAVIORAL5A's model
(1) Ask - ask youth smokers about their smoking habit, (2) Advise - advise youth smokers to quit smoking, (3) Assess - assess youth smokers about their willingness to quit smoking, (4) Assist - assist youth smokers who are willing to make a quit attempt, and (5) Arrange \- arrange for follow-up.
Sponsors
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Study design
Allocation
NA
Intervention model
SINGLE_GROUP
Primary purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
NONE
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
No minimum to 25 Years
Healthy volunteers
Yes
Inclusion criteria
* Aged 25 or below * Self-reported to smoke any types of tobacco products within the past 1 month * Speak Cantonese and * Provide verbal consent to counselling service.
Exclusion criteria
* have psychiatric disease * and/or currently receive any smoking cessation intervention from other service providers
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Self-reported 7-point prevalence | at the 6-month follow-up | The self-reported abstinence will be validated if the level of carbon monoxide in expired air was less than 4 parts per million and saliva cotinine level was less than100 ng/mL in parallel tests. |
Countries
Hong Kong
Contacts
Primary ContactKa Yan Ho, PhD
Backup ContactKa Wai Lam, PhD
Outcome results
None listed