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Addressing Parental Tobacco Use in Somali Immigrant Families: Adapting an Evidence-Based Intervention in Primary Care

Addressing Parental Tobacco Use in Somali Immigrant Families: Adapting an Evidence-based Intervention in Pediatric Primary Care

Status
Not yet recruiting
Phases
Phase 1
Study type
Interventional
Source
ClinicalTrials.gov
Registry ID
NCT06839729
Enrollment
50
Registered
2025-02-21
Start date
2027-01-01
Completion date
2029-12-31
Last updated
2026-02-27

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Conditions

Smoking, Smoking Cessation

Brief summary

This study will modify an existing evidence-based parental tobacco cessation intervention (the Clinical Effort Against Secondhand Smoke Exposure, or CEASE) delivered in pediatric primary care clinics to address shared tobacco use determinants and barriers to smoking cessation treatment among Somali Americans, an immigrant population facing significant combustible tobacco use disparities.

Detailed description

Smoking is a significant and growing concern within U.S. Somali immigrant populations, who experience unique barriers to accessing and using tobacco treatments developed for the general population. Household smoking exposes Somali families to second- and thirdhand smoke with related negative health consequences and influences children's tobacco use beliefs and future behaviors. This study will modify and then pilot test an existing evidence-based parental tobacco cessation intervention (the Clinical Effort Against Secondhand Smoke Exposure, or CEASE) delivered in pediatric primary care clinics to address shared tobacco use determinants and barriers to smoking cessation treatment among Somali Americans. This new intervention, CEASE+, will increase access to and utilization of tobacco cessation treatment for Somali parents through brief clinician- and staff-delivered messaging and tobacco cessation resources. The project will take place in two phases. In phase 1, the investigators will modify the existing intervention to develop CEASE+ by conducting focus groups with Somali parents who smoke and non-smokers who live with adults who smoke and with the help of a community advisory board. In phase 2, we will conduct a pilot study of the new intervention, CEASE+, with Somali parents in 2 pediatric primary care clinics (n=50 parents who smoke). Primary outcomes will include feasibility and acceptability of CEASE+ intervention components and study procedures. Secondary outcomes will include cigarette smoking abstinence and total tobacco abstinence at 3 months and changes in cigarette smoking heaviness between baseline and 3 months.

Interventions

BEHAVIORALCEASE+

The intervention will be delivered by the clinician to smoking parents who attend the office visit and to smoking parents not present at the visit via resources sent home with a non-smoking parent. If the smoking parent is present in clinic, the intervention consists of a brief, clinician- delivered motivational intervention that includes messaging around the risks of household smoking, verbal recommendation for establishing home/car smoke-free rules, a printed prescription for nicotine replacement therapy and quitline information, and messaging on the benefits of cessation and a quitline referral. If the smoking parent is not present in clinic, the intervention will include clinician-delivered messaging to the non-smoking parent to share CEASE+ resources with the parent who smokes and an invitation for the parent who smokes to participate in a single call delivered by a culturally-/linguistically-congruent community health worker to connect them to CEASE+ resources.

Sponsors

University of Minnesota
Lead SponsorOTHER

Study design

Allocation
NA
Intervention model
SINGLE_GROUP
Primary purpose
OTHER
Masking
NONE

Eligibility

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

Inclusion criteria

* age over 18 years * self-reported 1 st or 2 nd generation Somali identity * parent or legal guardian at least one pediatric patient within the MHF system * self-reported use of combustible cigarettes (even a puff) in the past 30 days * access to a telephone

Exclusion criteria

Clinician or staff participant: * Inability or unwillingness to participate in implementing CEASE+ * Employees or students of the research team Parent participant: * Having participated in Aim 1

Design outcomes

Primary

MeasureTime frameDescription
Mean participant satisfaction with study procedures (follow up)3 month followupMean participant satisfaction score measured with 5-point Likert scale score (0 = strongly dissatisfied, 1=dissatisfied, 2=neutral, 3=satisfied, 4=strongly satisfied)
Proportion of parents who received motivational interventionbaselineThe proportion of parents who report receipt of this tobacco cessation resource (dichotomous - yes/no)
Proportion of parents who received a verbal recommendation for smoke- free home/care rulesbaselineThe proportion of parents who report receipt of this tobacco cessation resource (dichotomous - yes/no)
Proportion of parents who received nicotine replacement therapy (NRT)baselineThe proportion of parents who report receipt of this tobacco cessation resource (dichotomous - yes/no)
Proportion of parents who received a quitline referralbaselineThe proportion of parents who report receipt of this tobacco cessation resource (dichotomous - yes/no)
Percent completion of adapted protocol contentbaselineThe mean percent completion of adapted protocol participants
Mean duration of telephone callbaselineThe mean duration of the coaching call (minutes)
Change in parental smoker utilization of NRTbaseline, 3monthsThe change in the proportion of parental smoker utilization of NRT between baseline and 3 month follow up
Change in parental smoker utilization of quitline referralsbaseline, 3 monthsThe change in the proportion of parental smoker utilization of quitline referrals between baseline and 3 month follow
Survey completion rate verificationbaseline, 3 monthsThe proportion of questions completed relative
Mean duration of telephone surveybaseline, 3 monthsThe mean duration of telephone survey calls at baseline and 3 month follow up
Participation rate of recruitment (approached)baselineThe proportion of participants recruited over the proportion of participants approached
Participation rate of recruitment (eligible)BaselineThe proportion of participants recruited over the proportion of participants who are eligible based on a positive household
Retention of participants for follow-up3 month follow upThe proportion of participants who remain in the study at the 3 month follow up time point
Abstinence verification participation3 month followupThe proportion of participants reporting abstinence at 3 months who submit a sample for iCO biochemical verification
Mean participant satisfaction with CEASE+ materialsbaselineMean participant satisfaction score measured with 5-point Likert scale score (0 = strongly dissatisfied, 1=dissatisfied, 2=neutral, 3=satisfied, 4=strongly satisfied)
Mean participant satisfaction with in-clinic motivational interventionbaselineMean participant satisfaction score measured with 5-point Likert scale score (0 = strongly dissatisfied, 1=dissatisfied, 2=neutral, 3=satisfied, 4=strongly satisfied)
Mean participant satisfaction with telephone- call delivered motivational interventionbaselineMean participant satisfaction score measured with 5-point Likert scale score (0 = strongly dissatisfied, 1=dissatisfied, 2=neutral, 3=satisfied, 4=strongly satisfied)
Mean participant satisfaction with CEASE+ messagingbaselineMean participant satisfaction score measured with 5-point Likert scale score (0 = strongly dissatisfied, 1=dissatisfied, 2=neutral, 3=satisfied, 4=strongly satisfied)
Mean participant satisfaction with study procedures (baseline)BaselineMean participant satisfaction score measured with 5-point Likert scale score (0 = strongly dissatisfied, 1=dissatisfied, 2=neutral, 3=satisfied, 4=strongly satisfied)

Secondary

MeasureTime frameDescription
Change in the presence of smoke-free home/car rulesbaseline and 3 month follow upChange from baseline to 3 month follow up in the proportion of participants who report the presence of smoke-free home/car rules using a 2-item measure "House Rules about
Parental cigarette smoking abstinence3 month follow up7-day point prevalence abstinence of combustible
Total tobacco product abstinence3 month follow up7-day point prevalence abstinence of all tobacco products including shisha, cigars, chew, e-cigarettes
Change in the frequency of other tobacco usebaseline and 3 month follow upChange from baseline and 3 months in the proportion of parental smoker reported use of other forms of tobacco as a combined measure (i.e., e-cigarettes, hookah, cigars, etc.)
Change in cigarette smoking heavinessbaseline and 3 month follow upChange in the heaviness of cigarette smoking score from baseline to 3 month follow up using the Heaviness of Smoking index measure

Contacts

CONTACTApril Wilhelm, MD, MPH
awilhelm@umn.edu612-625-1654
PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATORApril Wilhelm, MD, MPH

University of Minnesota

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Data processed: Feb 28, 2026