Post-Discharge Smoking Cessation Strategies: Helping HAND 4 (HH4)

May 3, 2022 updated by: Nancy A. Rigotti, Massachusetts General Hospital

Comparative Effectiveness of Post-Discharge Strategies for Hospitalized Smokers

This randomized controlled trial will compare the effectiveness of two models of post-discharge tobacco cessation treatment for adult smokers admitted to 3 U.S. hospitals.

Study Overview

Status

Status

Indicates the current recruitment status or the expanded access status.
Completed

Conditions

Conditions

The disease, disorder, syndrome, illness, or injury that is being studied. On ClinicalTrials.gov, conditions may also include other health-related issues, such as lifespan, quality of life, and health risks.

Intervention / Treatment

Intervention / Treatment

A process or action that is the focus of a clinical study. Interventions include drugs, medical devices, procedures, vaccines, and other products that are either investigational or already available. Interventions can also include noninvasive approaches, such as education or modifying diet and exercise.

Detailed Description

This multi-site randomized controlled trial (RCT) will compare the effectiveness of two models of post-discharge tobacco cessation treatment for adult smokers who are admitted to 3 large hospital systems in 3 U.S. regions (MA, PA, TN). All patients will receive guideline-based tobacco cessation treatment delivered in hospital by each site's existing Tobacco Treatment Service that is directed by a study investigator. Patients who plan to quit smoking after hospital discharge will be randomly assigned to 1 of 2 post-discharge tobacco treatment interventions and followed at 1, 3, and 6 months. One arm uses bidirectional electronic referral (eReferral) to the state tobacco quitline. The other arm, Personalized Tobacco Care Management (PTCM), combines proactive messages delivered by automated interactive voice response (IVR) phone calls, text messaging, and/or email with health coaching provided by a hospital-based tobacco counselor. Both groups will receive at least 1 month of nicotine replacement therapy.

Study Type

Study Type

Describes the nature of a clinical study. Study types include interventional studies (also called clinical trials), observational studies (including patient registries), and expanded access.
Interventional

Enrollment (Actual)

Enrollment

The number of participants in a clinical study. The "anticipated" enrollment is the target number of participants that the researchers need for the study.
1416

Phase

Phase

The stage of a clinical trial studying a drug or biological product, based on definitions developed by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The phase is based on the study's objective, the number of participants, and other characteristics. There are five phases: Early Phase 1 (formerly listed as Phase 0), Phase 1, Phase 2, Phase 3, and Phase 4. Not Applicable is used to describe trials without FDA-defined phases, including trials of devices or behavioral interventions.
  • Phase 4

Contacts and Locations

This section provides the contact details for those conducting the study, and information on where this study is being conducted.

Study Locations

  • United States
    • Massachusetts
      • Boston, Massachusetts, United States, 02114
        • Massachusetts General Hospital
    • Pennsylvania
      • Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, 15213
        • University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
    • Tennessee
      • Nashville, Tennessee, United States, 37203
        • Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

Eligibility Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

The key requirements that people who want to participate in a clinical study must meet or the characteristics they must have. Eligibility criteria consist of both inclusion criteria (which are required for a person to participate in the study) and exclusion criteria (which prevent a person from participating). Types of eligibility criteria include whether a study accepts healthy volunteers, has age or age group requirements, or is limited by sex.

Ages Eligible for Study

18 years and older (Adult, Older Adult)

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Genders Eligible for Study

All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

  • 18 years of age or older
  • Current cigarette smoker (>=1 cigarette in the week before admission and >=1 cigarette/day when smoking at a baseline rate in the month prior to admission)
  • Admitted to a study hospital
  • Seen by hospital smoking counselor during inpatient stay
  • Plans to try to quit smoking after hospital discharge

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Inability to give informed consent or participate in counseling due to serious cognitive or psychiatric disorder (e.g., dementia, psychosis)
  • Life expectancy <12 months
  • Medical instability
  • No reliable telephone access or inability to use telephone
  • Non-English speaking
  • Pregnant, breastfeeding, to planning to become pregnant in the next 6 months.

Study Plan

This section provides details of the study plan, including how the study is designed and what the study is measuring.

How is the study designed?

Design Details

  • Primary Purpose: Treatment
  • Allocation: Randomized
  • Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
  • Masking: Single

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm

Participant Group / Arm

A group or subgroup of participants in a clinical trial that receives a specific intervention/treatment, or no intervention, according to the trial's protocol.
Intervention / Treatment

Intervention / Treatment

A process or action that is the focus of a clinical study. Interventions include drugs, medical devices, procedures, vaccines, and other products that are either investigational or already available. Interventions can also include noninvasive approaches, such as education or modifying diet and exercise.
Experimental: Transitional Tobacco Care Management (TTCM)
TTCM will provide 8 weeks of nicotine replacement therapy at hospital discharge and proactive contacts over 3 months delivered by automated IVR call. At each contact the patient is offered a return call from the hospital-based tobacco coach for counseling, medication advice, and coordination of care with the patient's outpatient health care team.
Behavioral: Transitional Tobacco Care Management (TTCM)
PTCM will provide sustained care after discharge by offering (1) 8 weeks of nicotine replacement therapy at no cost provided at hospital discharge and (2) up to 7 proactive contacts over 3 months delivered by automated IVR call, supplemented by text messaging and email (patient choice). At each contact the patient is offered a return call from the hospital-based tobacco coach who offer counseling, medication advice, and coordination of care with the patient's outpatient health care team.
Drug: Nicotine replacement therapy
Up to 8 weeks of nicotine replacement therapy provided at no cost to the patient.
Active Comparator: eReferral to State Tobacco Quitline (QL)
Referral from hospital to the state Quitline will be made by the research team on behalf of each enrolled patient. Quitline staff will contact patient to offer up to 5 proactive telephone calls from a tobacco coach. Patient may also be eligible for NRT sample. Feedback from the quitline will be sent back to the patient's medical chart.
Drug: Nicotine replacement therapy
Up to 8 weeks of nicotine replacement therapy provided at no cost to the patient.
Behavioral: eReferral to State Tobacco Quitline (QL)
Referral from hospital to the state Quitline will be made by the research team on behalf of each enrolled patient. Feedback from the Quitline will be included in the patient's medical chart.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Primary Outcome Measures

In a clinical study's protocol, the planned outcome measure that is the most important for evaluating the effect of an intervention/treatment. Most clinical studies have one primary outcome measure, but some have more than one.
Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
Tobacco Abstinence, Biochemically Confirmed
Time Frame: 6 months after hospital discharge
Participant self-report of no use of any tobacco product (cigarettes, cigars, little cigars, pipes, smokeless tobacco product) in the past 7 days AND either a saliva sample with a cotinine concentration <=10 ng/ml OR breath sample with a carbon monoxide concentration <=9 ppm.
6 months after hospital discharge

Secondary Outcome Measures

Secondary Outcome Measures

In a clinical study's protocol, a planned outcome measure that is not as important as the primary outcome measure for evaluating the effect of an intervention but is still of interest. Most clinical studies have more than one secondary outcome measure.
Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
Tobacco Abstinence, Self-report
Time Frame: 1 month after hospital discharge
Participant self-report of abstinence for the past 7 days from any tobacco product use (cigarettes, cigars, little cigars, pipes, smokeless tobacco product).
1 month after hospital discharge
Tobacco Abstinence, Self-report
Time Frame: 3 months after hospital discharge
Participant self-report of abstinence for the past 7 days from any tobacco product use (cigarettes, cigars, little cigars, pipes, smokeless tobacco product).
3 months after hospital discharge
Tobacco Abstinence, Self-report
Time Frame: 6 months after hospital discharge
Participant self-report of abstinence for the past 7 days from any tobacco product use (cigarettes, cigars, little cigars, pipes, smokeless tobacco product).
6 months after hospital discharge
Engagement in Cessation Treatment
Time Frame: 1 month after hospital discharge
Number of participants who report currently using tobacco treatment (defined as cessation medication or cessation counseling) at the 1 month post-discharge assessment.
1 month after hospital discharge
Engagement in Cessation Treatment
Time Frame: 3 months after hospital discharge
Number of participants who report currently using tobacco treatment (defined as cessation medication or cessation counseling) at 3 month post-discharge assessment
3 months after hospital discharge
Self-reported Continuous Tobacco Abstinence Since Hospital Discharge
Time Frame: 6 months follow-up
Number of participants who self-report having smoked no cigarettes and used no other tobacco products (cigars, little cigars, pipes, smokeless tobacco) since index hospital discharge
6 months follow-up

Collaborators and Investigators

This is where you will find people and organizations involved with this study.

Sponsor

Sponsor

The organization or person who initiates the study and who has authority and control over the study.
Massachusetts General Hospital

Collaborators

Collaborators

An organization other than the sponsor that provides support for a clinical study. This support may include activities related to funding, design, implementation, data analysis, or reporting.
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center

Investigators

Investigators

A researcher involved in a clinical study. Related terms include site principal investigator, site sub-investigator, study chair, study director, and study principal investigator.
  • Principal Investigator: Hilary A Tindle, MD, MPH, Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Publications and helpful links

The person responsible for entering information about the study voluntarily provides these publications. These may be about anything related to the study.

General Publications

Study record dates

These dates track the progress of study record and summary results submissions to ClinicalTrials.gov. Study records and reported results are reviewed by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) to make sure they meet specific quality control standards before being posted on the public website.

Study Major Dates

Study Start (Actual)

Study Start

The actual date on which the first participant was enrolled in a clinical study. The "anticipated" study start date is the date that the researchers think will be the study start date.
September 1, 2018

Primary Completion (Actual)

Primary Completion

The date on which the last participant in a clinical study was examined or received an intervention to collect final data for the primary outcome measure. Whether the clinical study ended according to the protocol or was terminated does not affect this date. For clinical studies with more than one primary outcome measure with different completion dates, this term refers to the date on which data collection is completed for all the primary outcome measures. The "anticipated" primary completion date is the date that the researchers think will be the primary completion date for the study.
November 17, 2020

Study Completion (Actual)

Study Completion

The date on which the last participant in a clinical study was examined or received an intervention/treatment to collect final data for the primary outcome measures, secondary outcome measures, and adverse events (that is, the last participant's last visit). The "anticipated" study completion date is the date that the researchers think will be the study completion date.
November 17, 2020

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

First Submitted

The date on which the study sponsor or investigator first submitted a study record to ClinicalTrials.gov. There is typically a delay of a few days between the first submitted date and the record's availability on ClinicalTrials.gov (the first posted date).
July 18, 2018

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

The date on which the study sponsor or investigator first submits a study record that is consistent with National Library of Medicine (NLM) quality control (QC) review criteria. The sponsor or investigator may need to revise and submit a study record one or more times before NLM's QC review criteria are met. It is the responsibility of the sponsor or investigator to ensure that the study record is consistent with the NLM QC review criteria.
July 18, 2018

First Posted (Actual)

First Posted

The date on which the study record was first available on ClinicalTrials.gov after National Library of Medicine (NLM) quality control (QC) review has concluded. There is typically a delay of a few days between the date the study sponsor or investigator submitted the study record and the first posted date.
July 27, 2018

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (Actual)

Last Update Posted

The most recent date on which changes to a study record were made available on ClinicalTrials.gov. There may be a delay between when the changes were submitted to ClinicalTrials.gov by the study's sponsor or investigator (the last update submitted date) and the last update posted date.
May 5, 2022

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

The most recent date on which the study sponsor or investigator submitted changes to a study record that are consistent with National Library of Medicine (NLM) quality control (QC) review criteria. It is the responsibility of the sponsor or investigator to ensure that the study record is consistent with the NLM QC review criteria.
May 3, 2022

Last Verified

Last Verified

The most recent date on which the study sponsor or investigator confirmed the information about a clinical study on ClinicalTrials.gov as accurate and current. If a study with a recruitment status of recruiting; not yet recruiting; or active, not recruiting has not been confirmed within the past 2 years, the study's recruitment status is shown as unknown.
May 1, 2022

More Information

Terms related to this study

Keywords

Additional Relevant MeSH Terms

Other Study ID Numbers

Other Study ID Numbers

Identifiers or ID numbers other than the NCT number that are assigned to a clinical study by the study's sponsor, funders, or others. These numbers may include unique identifiers from other trial registries and National Institutes of Health grant numbers.
  • 2017P000774/PHS

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?

NO

Drug and device information, study documents

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product

Yes

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product

No

This information was retrieved directly from the website clinicaltrials.gov without any changes. If you have any requests to change, remove or update your study details, please contact register@clinicaltrials.gov. As soon as a change is implemented on clinicaltrials.gov, this will be updated automatically on our website as well.

Clinical Trials on Smoking Cessation

Clinical Trials on Transitional Tobacco Care Management (TTCM)

Search Similar Trials

Sponsors and Collaborators

Medical Conditions

Drug Interventions

Conditions

Rare Diseases

Drug Interventions

Dietary Supplements

Sponsor/Collaborators

Locations

Cookie Settings

We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. For more details carefully read our Privacy and Cookies Policy. ...>>>You can change your preferences or withdraw your consent at any time by deleting the cookies from your website or computer as described in the policy. Please accept it and choose your preferences by ticking the corresponding boxes in the "Manage Settings" section below. Please carefully read our Terms of Service before you proceed with using any part of this website.
«Manage Settings