DPBRN Hygienists Internet Quality Improvement in Tobacco Cessation (HiQuit) (HiQuit)
Hygienists Internet Tobacco Cessation Study (HiQuit)
Study Overview
Detailed Description
This study is designed to allow dental hygienists and dentists to provide additional tobacco cessation counseling with little additional marginal effort. This would be done using an Internet-based referral to external resources. This system, termed "ReferASmoker", will allow hygienists and dentists to refer patients to a patient education, self-management website, "Decide2Quit" and accompanying Quitline, while the patient is still in the dental office. We anticipate that hygienists will be the primary drivers of this intervention. Our intervention has several innovations designed to support the dental practice in their tobacco cessation activities and maximize patient cessation rates. We will randomize 80 community-based primary dental practices into a clinical trial.
Aim 1. To test hypothesis 1(H1)that the number of patients REFERRED to the self-management resource website will be larger in the intervention practices compared to control practices.
Aim 2. To test hypothesis 2 (H2) that the proportion of patients referred who GO to the patient self-management website will be larger in intervention practices compared to control practices
Aim 3. To test hypothesis 3 (H3) that the proportion of smokers who are referred who QUIT at six months will be larger among intervention compared to control because of the additional connectivity of the intervention.
Study Type
Enrollment (Actual)
Phase
- Early Phase 1
Contacts and Locations
Study Locations
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Alabama
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Birmingham, Alabama, United States, 35294
- University of Alabama at Birmingham
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Minnesota
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Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
- Health Partners Research Foundation
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Participation Criteria
Eligibility Criteria
Ages Eligible for Study
Accepts Healthy Volunteers
Genders Eligible for Study
Description
Inclusion Criteria:
- Community-based practices with internet access available in the office seeing an average of five or more smokers in a week.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Exclude practices that have ongoing computer-based smoking cessation programs for patients.
Study Plan
How is the study designed?
Design Details
- Primary Purpose: Treatment
- Allocation: Randomized
- Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
- Masking: Triple
Arms and Interventions
Participant Group / Arm |
Intervention / Treatment |
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Experimental: Electronic Referrals
Dental practices randomized to the experimental group will have options on how to refer patients to the tobacco cessation website.
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Dental practices in this arm will be able to have option of making electronic patient referrals to the Decide2Quit website.
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No Intervention: Routine Referral
Dental practices in this arm will refer patients to the Decide2Quit website by using an information prescription.
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What is the study measuring?
Primary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Measure Description |
Time Frame |
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Number of smokers referred to tobacco cessation website
Time Frame: 12 months
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We will asses the number of patient referrals that the dental hygienists make to the tobacco cessation website.
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12 months
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Secondary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Measure Description |
Time Frame |
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Proportion of smokers who go to the tobacco cessation website
Time Frame: 12 months
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We will assess the proportion of smokers who were referred to the tobacco cessation website to the number of patients who registered on the website.
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12 months
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Point prevalence smoking cessation
Time Frame: 6 months
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Tobacco cessation behaviors will be assessed by follow-up email and/or telephone interviews at six months from website enrollment.
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6 months
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Collaborators and Investigators
Collaborators
Investigators
- Study Chair: Gregg H. GIlbert, DDS, MBA, Dental Practice-Based Research Network (DPBRN)
- Principal Investigator: Midge N. Ray, RN, MSN, CCS, University of Alabama School of Health Professons at Birmingham
Publications and helpful links
General Publications
- Holliday R, Hong B, McColl E, Livingstone-Banks J, Preshaw PM. Interventions for tobacco cessation delivered by dental professionals. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2021 Feb 19;2(2):CD005084. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD005084.pub4.
- Coley HL, Sadasivam RS, Williams JH, Volkman JE, Schoenberger YM, Kohler CL, Sobko H, Ray MN, Allison JJ, Ford DE, Gilbert GH, Houston TK; National Dental PBRN and QUITPRIMO Collaborative Group. Crowdsourced peer- versus expert-written smoking-cessation messages. Am J Prev Med. 2013 Nov;45(5):543-50. doi: 10.1016/j.amepre.2013.07.004.
- Ray MN, Funkhouser E, Williams JH, Sadasivam RS, Gilbert GH, Coley HL, Rindal DB, Houston TK; National Dental PBRN Collaborative Group. Smoking-cessation e-referrals: a national dental practice-based research network randomized controlled trial. Am J Prev Med. 2014 Feb;46(2):158-65. doi: 10.1016/j.amepre.2013.10.018.
Study record dates
Study Major Dates
Study Start
Primary Completion (Actual)
Study Completion (Actual)
Study Registration Dates
First Submitted
First Submitted That Met QC Criteria
First Posted (Estimate)
Study Record Updates
Last Update Posted (Estimate)
Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria
Last Verified
More Information
Terms related to this study
Keywords
Other Study ID Numbers
- 122286
- U01DE016747 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)
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