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NCT Number: NCT01108432

DPBRN Hygienists Internet Quality Improvement in Tobacco Cessation (HiQuit)

Our overall goal is to advance science related to using the Internet in health services delivery, and specifically smoking cessation by targeting dental hygienists. Our proposed intervention is the first Internet-delivered intervention to target the dental microsystem for smoking cessation-providing access to hygienists and patients.

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Key information

Conditions

Smoking Cessation Behavior Health Behavior

Age range

19 year and older

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Early Phase 1

Primary location

University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States

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About this study

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.

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: Yes

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

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.

Treatment and study plan

Electronic Referral

Other

Dental practices in this arm will be able to have option of making electronic patient referrals to the Decide2Quit website.

Primary outcomes

  1. Number of smokers referred to tobacco cessation website

    Time frame: 12 months

    We will asses the number of patient referrals that the dental hygienists make to the tobacco cessation website.

Secondary outcomes

  1. Proportion of smokers who go to the tobacco cessation website

    Time frame: 12 months

    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.

  2. Point prevalence smoking cessation

    Time frame: 6 months

    Tobacco cessation behaviors will be assessed by follow-up email and/or telephone interviews at six months from website enrollment.

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Dental Practice-Based Research Network

Network

Collaborators

  • HealthPartners Institute
  • University of Alabama at Birmingham
  • University of Massachusetts, Worcester

Registry information

Official study title

Hygienists Internet Tobacco Cessation Study (HiQuit)

Acronym: HiQuit

Important dates

Study start
2010
Primary completion
2011
Study completion
2011
First posted
Apr 22, 2010
Registry last updated
Jan 25, 2013

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This listing is for discovery and informational purposes only. It is not medical advice, does not guarantee that a study is recruiting, and does not determine eligibility. Contact the study team and a qualified healthcare professional when considering participation.

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