Helping Ethnic Minority in Hong Kong to Quit Smoking by Understanding Their Knowledge, Attitude and Behavior Related to Smoking

This study aims at understanding the needs and concerns of the ethnic minority in Hong Kong, including their behavior, attitudes, and experiences related to smoking and smoking cessation. Specifically, how the level of smoking-related knowledge among them differ from the rest of the Hong Kong people, will be explored. In addition, whether Hong Kong smoking policy influenced the smoking pattern of them will be investigated.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Smoking

Detailed Description

Cigarette smoking is the most significant preventable cause of death and disease, causing 6 million deaths annually worldwide. Despite the fact that tobacco use in Hong Kong has been decreased from 23.3% in 1982 to 10.1% in 2017, the remaining 620 600 daily smokers[3] cannot be overlooked or undervalued.

Hong Kong is a predominantly Chinese society, but it has a sizeable South Asian ethnic minority (EM). According to the Census & Statistics Department, the number of ethnic minorities in Hong Kong increased significantly by 70.8% over the past 10 years. Nevertheless, few smoking and health promotion activities and smoking cessation services have been tailor-made for ethnic minorities in Hong Kong. The barrier of supplying smoking cessation service to the ethnic minority group is that their smoking motivation, willingness to quit, obstacles of quit smoking, attitude towards Hong Kong tobacco law and smoking cessation services are not sure. This will be the first research exploring their knowledge, attitude and experience of cigarette smoking.

• Study Type: Observational
• Enrollment (Actual): 30

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• Hong Kong
  • Hong Kong, Hong Kong
    • The University of Hong Kong

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 18 years and older (Adult, Older Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

• Sampling Method: Non-Probability Sample

Study Population

This study only focuses on ethnic minorities. Ethnic minorities refer to persons who reported themselves being of non-Chinese ethnicity in the Population Census/By-census.

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• Only smokers with South Asian(Pakistani, Indian, or Nepalese)backgrounds
• Willing to participate
• aged 18 years or above
• able to speak English
• smoke at least one cigarette per day for the past 3 months

Exclusion Criteria:

• Domestic workers, asylum seekers, refugees, or illegal immigrants, individuals with other ethnic backgrounds, i.e., Africans
• Cannot speak English
• poor cognitive state or active psychotic symptoms, i.e. hallucination, illusion and delusion, noted in the medical records.

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
The smoking behaviour among ethnic minorities in Hong Kong.	Participants were asked about: The reasons started smoking and the reasons keep smoking behaviour.; The cigarette consumption, the type of cigarettes consumed and the smoking area of ethnic minorities.; The number of quit attempts, the motivation to quit smoking, the ways they overcome withdraw symptoms and depression symptoms as well as reasons they failed to quit.; The reason they don't want to quit smoking.; Whether the above items have changed after they moved from their original countries to Hong Kong.	at the baseline
The knowledge of the risk of smoking in ethnic minorities in Hong Kong.	Participants were asked about their knowledge of the risk of smoking.	at the baseline
Attitudes towards smoking, tobacco control and smoking cessation in ethnic minorities in Hong Kong.	Participants were asked about; The attitudes towards smoking, tobacco control policy and smoking cessation.; Their family members' and peers' attitude to their smoking behaviour.	at the baseline

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: The University of Hong Kong

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): September 18, 2018
• Primary Completion (Actual): April 18, 2019
• Study Completion (Actual): August 31, 2019

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: June 10, 2019
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: July 17, 2019
• First Posted (Actual): July 18, 2019

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): April 21, 2020
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: April 19, 2020
• Last Verified: April 1, 2020

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: Smoking Cessation
• Other Study ID Numbers: UW 18-514

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: YES
• IPD Plan Description: The relevant anonymized patient level data, full dataset, technical appendix, and statistical code are available on reasonable request. The approval from the Principal Investigator for the purpose of data use is required.
• IPD Sharing Time Frame: After the results of the project has been published.
• IPD Sharing Access Criteria: Request could be sent to Principal Investigator (william3@hku.hk)

Drug and device information, study documents

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