Incorporating Financial Incentives to Increase Smoking Cessation Among Asian Americans Residing in New York City

Incorporating Financial Incentives to Increase Smoking Cessation Among Asian Americans Residing in New York City: A Feasibility Study

Financial incentives for motivating health change have been increasingly employed in various healthcare sectors. They can be a potentially effective approach to promote smoking behavioral change and increase the use of evidence-based counseling and pharmacotherapy. Smoking cessation randomized clinical trials (RCT) incorporating financial incentives have been conducted in different populations; however, there has not been a randomized clinical trial coupled with a financial incentive with Asian American cigarette smokers. The purpose of this pilot study is to examine the feasibility of implementing an incentivized smoking cessation program among Asian American smokers in New York City.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Smoking Cessation; Smoking, Cigarette
• Intervention / Treatment: Behavioral: Financial Incentives

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 10
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• United States
  • New York
    • New York, New York, United States, 10016
      • New York University School of Medicine

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 18 years to 90 years (Adult, Older Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• Asian American
• current smoker who smokes at least 10 cigarettes daily (verified by a CO level of 8 ppm or above)
• New York City resident
• able to complete three month follow-up assessments in person, can provide a telephone number
• declining the use of Chantix for smoking cessation.

Exclusion Criteria:

• <18 years old
• pregnant
• cannot provide a telephone number, non-smokers or smokers that smoke fewer than 10 cigarettes daily, users of e-cigarettes or other tobacco products who are not interested in quitting smoking, marijuana users
• not a New York City resident
• unable to complete three month follow-up assessment in person
• unable to provide written consent
• agree to use Chantix for smoking cessation.

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Treatment
• Allocation: N/A
• Interventional Model: Single Group Assignment
• Masking: None (Open Label)

Number of Arms

1

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: Usual Care+Financial Incentive; Smoking cessation counseling couples with financial incentives	Behavioral: Financial Incentives; Baseline Interview, 2 Counseling Sessions at baseline and 2 weeks post baseline, and one follow up survey at one month

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Number of patients recruited by implementing Financial Incentive Smoking Cessation Program among Asian American Smokers	Number of patients who complete incentive program	One Month

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: NYU Langone Health
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: Donna Shelley, MD, NYU Langone Health

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): September 5, 2018
• Primary Completion (Actual): August 31, 2019
• Study Completion (Actual): October 1, 2019

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: January 5, 2018
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: January 10, 2018
• First Posted (Actual): January 12, 2018

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): November 8, 2019
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: November 6, 2019
• Last Verified: November 1, 2019

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Other Study ID Numbers: 17-00760

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: UNDECIDED

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No