Combining Default Choices and a Decision Aid to Improve Tobacco Cessation
About the study
The FIRST cluster randomized trial will evaluate the effect of 1) a training program encouraging general practitioners to offer smoking cessation treatment as a default choice to all current smokers consulting a general practitioner (GP), and 2) an interactive, electronic decision aid to guide smoking cessation treatment, on the proportion of current smokers seen in primary care who have quit smoking 6 months after a baseline visit to their GP, as compared to enhanced usual care.
Who can take part
You may be eligible to participate in the study if you meet the following criteria:
INCLUSION CRITERIA
Patient-level inclusion criteria:
- Consider the GP they are seeing in consultation to be their primary care doctor
- Use tobacco daily (cigarettes, cigars, smokeless tobacco)
- ≥18 years of age at the time of inclusion
GP-level inclusion criteria:
- GP in private practice in French-speaking Switzerland (Vaud, Geneva, Jura, Neuchâtel, Fribourg or Valais) or metropolitan France
- Primarily French-speaking patients with >80 individual patients seen in a typical month
EXCLUSION CRITERIA
Patient-level exclusion criteria:
- Consulting for an urgent complaint that precludes even a brief discussion of smoking cessation
- Inability to follow the procedures of the study, e.g. unable to read French-language consent materials, severe psychiatric disorders, dementia, etc.
- Previous enrolment in a smoking cessation trial <1 year prior
- Current daily user of a pharmacologic smoking cessation aid
GP-level exclusion criteria:
- Completed an intensive smoking cessation curriculum <2 years prior (ie. at least half-day of training)
- Have plans to retire or relocate outside of Switzerland or France in <12 months
Study Locations
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How to Apply
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Study’s details
Contition
Smoking Cessation
Age (in years)
18+
Phase
Not Applicable
Participants needed
287
Est. Completion Date
Dec 31, 2023
Treatment type
Interventional
Sponsor
Center for Primary Care and Public Health (Unisante), University of Lausanne, Switzerland
ClinicalTrials.gov identifier
NCT04868474
Study number
FIRST
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