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- US Clinical Trials Registry
- Clinical Trial NCT03904186
Effectiveness of an Integrated Treatment to Address Smoking Cessation and Anxiety/ Depression in People Living With HIV
January 19, 2023 updated by: Conall O'Cleirigh, Massachusetts General Hospital
Smokers living with HIV represent a major health disparity population in the United States and the world more generally.
Major contributing factors to the maintenance and relapse of smoking among smokers living with HIV include increased exposure to multiple stressors associated with HIV, which often exacerbates anxiety/depression.
In a previous project, the feasibility, acceptability, and initial efficacy of a 9-session, cognitive-behavioral-based intervention to address smoking cessation by reducing anxiety and depression via specific emotional vulnerabilities (anxiety sensitivity, distress tolerance, and anhedonia) was tested against an enhanced standard of care in a pilot randomized controlled trial (NCT01393301).
It was found that when compared to a brief enhanced treatment as usual control, patients in the intervention achieved higher short-term and long-term smoking abstinence rates.
In this project, the investigators seek to test this same intervention in a fully powered, 3-arm efficacy/effectiveness trial.
The goal of this study is to randomize 180 smokers across three sites to test the efficacy/effectiveness of the intervention at increasing point prevalence abstinence by reducing anxiety and depression at a 1-month follow-up (the end of treatment timepoint/ approximately 1-month post quit day) and a 6-month follow-up (approximately 6-months post quit day).
Study Overview
Status
Recruiting
Conditions
Intervention / Treatment
Detailed Description
Although the prevalence of smoking has declined over the past 50 years, large disparities in tobacco use remain across several subgroups, particularly disadvantaged and health compromised populations.
In fact, the initiation and maintenance of smoking is twice as likely for individuals living with HIV than individuals not living with HIV.
Smokers living with HIV represent a major health disparity population in the United States (US) and the world more generally, and their unique healthcare needs are not being adequately addressed.
For people living with HIV, smoking is related to poorer survival, and among those who are adherent to their antiretroviral treatment regimens, smoking reduces life expectancy more than HIV.
A major contributing factor to the maintenance and relapse of smoking among smokers living with HIV is the increased exposure to multiple stressors associated with HIV (e.g., compromised health status, stigma, cognitive impairment), which in turn, contributes to heightened anxiety/depression.
Further, smokers living with HIV tend to rely on smoking to regulate their negative mood.
As a result, smokers living with HIV require specialty care options that address their unique 'affective needs.'
The proposed intervention is informed by the success of a recently completed research project (NCT01393301) in which the feasibility and acceptability of a 9-session, cognitive-behavioral therapy-based intervention to address smoking cessation and symptoms of anxiety and depression by targeting common processes underlying anxiety/depression (distress intolerance, anxiety sensitivity, anhedonia) was tested in a pilot randomized controlled trial (RCT) against an enhanced treatment as usual condition.
Investigators named this intervention "QUIT".
In the pilot RCT, smoking abstinence was significantly higher in the intervention than in the standard of care control at both the 1-month follow-up (the end-of-treatment timepoint) and the 6-month follow-up, and anxiety and depressive symptom severity was lower in the intervention condition than the control condition at the same timepoints.
The present study seeks to conduct a fully powered, 3-arm hybrid efficacy/effectiveness trial, integrating resource utilization and cost-effectiveness analyses.
The investigators propose to randomize 180 smokers living with HIV across three implementation sites.
Two-fifths of the sample (n = 72) will be randomized to the QUIT intervention; two-fifths (n = 72) to an active, credible time-matched control (TM) and one-fifth (n = 36) to a standard-of-care (SOC) control.
The primary outcomes of this study will be point prevalence abstinence at the 1-Month Follow-Up (end of treatment timepoint/ approximately 1-month post quit day) and 6-Month Follow-Up (approximately 6-months post quit day).
Changes in anxiety/depressive symptom severity will also be examined, and cost-effectiveness analyses will be conducted.
Study Type
Interventional
Enrollment (Anticipated)
360
Phase
- Not Applicable
Contacts and Locations
This section provides the contact details for those conducting the study, and information on where this study is being conducted.
Study Contact
- Name: Conall M O'Cleirigh, PhD
- Phone Number: 617-643-0385
- Email: cocleirigh@mgh.harvard.edu
Study Contact Backup
- Name: Samantha M McKetchnie, MSW
- Phone Number: 617-724-9944
- Email: smarquez1@mgh.harvard.edu
Study Locations
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Massachusetts
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Boston, Massachusetts, United States, 02114
- Recruiting
- Massachusetts General Hospital
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Contact:
- Samantha M McKetchnie, MSW
- Phone Number: 617-643-0385
- Email: smarquez1@mgh.harvard.edu
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Principal Investigator:
- Conall O'Cleirigh, Ph.D.
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Boston, Massachusetts, United States, 02215
- Recruiting
- Fenway Community Health
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Contact:
- Samantha M McKetchnie, MSW
- Phone Number: 617-927-6465
- Email: smarquezmcketchnie@fenwayhealth.org
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Principal Investigator:
- Conall O'Cleirigh, PhD
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Texas
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Houston, Texas, United States, 77009
- Recruiting
- Thomas Street Health Center
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Contact:
- Denise Flores
- Phone Number: 713-873-4526
- Email: Denise.Flores@bcm.edu
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Principal Investigator:
- Thomas Giordano, MD
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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
Ages Eligible for Study
18 years to 79 years (Adult, Older Adult)
Accepts Healthy Volunteers
No
Genders Eligible for Study
All
Description
Inclusion Criteria:
- 18-79 years old
- Daily Smoker
- Motivated to quit smoking
- HIV-positive
- Capability and willingness to give written informed consent
Exclusion Criteria:
- Habitual use of tobacco products other than cigarettes
- Untreated or unstable psychiatric disorders
- Current smoking cessation treatment
- Cognitive behavioral therapy for anxiety within the past year
- Insufficient command of the English language
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 |
Intervention / Treatment |
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Experimental: QUIT Treatment for Smoking Cessation and Distress Tolerance
Participants in this intervention arm will receive a Cognitive-Behavioral therapy-based intervention for smoking cessation in people living with HIV.
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QUIT is a transdiagnostic Cognitive Behavioral Therapy-based smoking cessation protocol designed to address distress intolerance, anxiety sensitivity, and anhedonia in people living with HIV who smoke.
QUIT is delivered in 9 60-minute individual weekly sessions over a 10-week period.
Sessions are active, with treatment components practiced within and outside of the session.
Participants will also receive the transdermal nicotine patch for 8 weeks, starting when they attempt to quit smoking during week 7 of the study.
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Active Comparator: Time and Intensity-Match Control
Participants in this control arm will receive an intervention matched in time and intensity with the experimental arm.
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Participants will receive a standard smoking cessation treatment, based on the clinical practice guidelines from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence.
Treatment will be delivered in nine, 60-minute sessions over a ten-week period.
The treatment is based on a treatment protocol developed and used previously by Dr. Zvolensky.
Because clinical guidelines recommend that all smokers attempting to quit smoking receive pharmacotherapy, participants will also receive the transdermal nicotine patch for 8 weeks.
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No Intervention: Standard of Care
At each clinic, routine assessment of smoking status occurs at least annually for patients receiving care, but prescription for pharmacotherapy for smoking cessation and referral for behavioral smoking cessation services are rare.
Patients will receive the standard of care at the clinic they attend.
SOC patients will also attend the first session that participants in the other sessions receive (pre-randomization), will come to the clinic for assessment only during the weeks lining up with sessions 6-10 for the other conditions, and receive the transdermal nicotine patch for 8 weeks.
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What is the study measuring?
Primary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Measure Description |
Time Frame |
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Short-Term Point Prevalence Smoking Abstinence
Time Frame: Time frame: 1-Month Follow-Up (end of treatment/approximately 1-month post quit date)
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Biologically verified 7-day point prevalence abstinence (PPA).
Using the timeline follow-back method (TLFB), participants will self-report the last time they smoked.
TLFB results will be biologically verified with carbon monoxide analysis of breath samples (if stated abstinence is between 24 hours and 2 weeks), saliva cotinine (if stated abstinence is 2+ weeks and participant is currently using nicotine replacement therapy), or urine anabasine (if stated abstinence is 2+ weeks and participant is not currently using nicotine replacement therapy).
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Time frame: 1-Month Follow-Up (end of treatment/approximately 1-month post quit date)
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Long-Term Point Prevalence Smoking Abstinence
Time Frame: Time frame: 6-Month Follow-Up (approximately 6-months post quit date)
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Biologically verified 7-day point prevalence abstinence (PPA).
Using the timeline follow-back method (TLFB), participants will self-report the last time they smoked.
TLFB results will be biologically verified with carbon monoxide analysis of breath samples (if stated abstinence is between 24 hours and 2 weeks), saliva cotinine (if stated abstinence is 2+ weeks and participant is currently using nicotine replacement therapy), or urine anabasine (if stated abstinence is 2+ weeks and participant is not currently using nicotine replacement therapy).
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Time frame: 6-Month Follow-Up (approximately 6-months post quit date)
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Collaborators and Investigators
This is where you will find people and organizations involved with this study.
Sponsor
Collaborators
Investigators
- Principal Investigator: Michael Zvolensky, PhD, University of Houston
- Principal Investigator: Jasper Smits, PhD, University of Texas at Austin
Publications and helpful links
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Study record dates
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Study Major Dates
Study Start (Actual)
December 19, 2019
Primary Completion (Anticipated)
June 1, 2023
Study Completion (Anticipated)
February 28, 2024
Study Registration Dates
First Submitted
April 3, 2019
First Submitted That Met QC Criteria
April 3, 2019
First Posted (Actual)
April 5, 2019
Study Record Updates
Last Update Posted (Actual)
January 20, 2023
Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria
January 19, 2023
Last Verified
January 1, 2023
More Information
Terms related to this study
Keywords
- HIV
- Tobacco Use
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
- Physiological Effects of Drugs
- Nicotine
- Peripheral Nervous System Agents
- Substance-Related Disorders
- Anhedonia
- Depressive Symptoms
- Tobacco Use Disorder
- Autonomic Agents
- Neurotransmitter Agents
- Anxiety Symptoms
- Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
- Anxiety Sensitivity
- Ganglionic Stimulants
- Nicotinic Agonists
- Cholinergic Agonists
- Cholinergic Agents
- Anxious
- Quitting
- Distress Intolerance
Additional Relevant MeSH Terms
- Behavioral Symptoms
- Mental Disorders
- Chemically-Induced Disorders
- Substance-Related Disorders
- RNA Virus Infections
- Virus Diseases
- Infections
- Mood Disorders
- Blood-Borne Infections
- Communicable Diseases
- Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Viral
- Sexually Transmitted Diseases
- Lentivirus Infections
- Retroviridae Infections
- Immunologic Deficiency Syndromes
- Immune System Diseases
- Slow Virus Diseases
- Depression
- Depressive Disorder
- HIV Infections
- Anxiety Disorders
- Tobacco Use Disorder
- Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
Other Study ID Numbers
- R01DA047933 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)
Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)
Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?
Yes
IPD Plan Description
One year following achievement of aims of the project (i.e., publication of the main outcome paper), de-identified data from this project will be provided to interested individuals.
These data will be provided in digital format with clear labels for all variables.
Data will be released directly by the investigators providing evidence of their institution's IRB approval for planned analyses of the data.
The study team will be available to address queries.
Drug and device information, study documents
Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product
No
Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product
No
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