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Effectiveness of Medical Student Counseling for Hospitalized Patients Addicted to Tobacco (MS-CHAT): a Randomized Controlled Trial

BACKGROUND: Low-middle-income countries face an enormous burden of tobacco-related illnesses. Counseling for tobacco cessation increases the chance of achieving quit outcomes, yet it remains underutilized in healthcare settings. OBJECTIVE: We tested the hypothesis that utilizing trained medical stud...

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Autores principales: Satish, Priyanka, Khetan, Aditya, Shah, Dharav, Srinivasan, Shuba, Balakrishnan, Rojith, Padmanandan, Arun, Hejjaji, Vittal, Hull, Leland, Samuel, Reema, Josephson, Richard
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10247264/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37286774
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11606-023-08243-y
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author Satish, Priyanka
Khetan, Aditya
Shah, Dharav
Srinivasan, Shuba
Balakrishnan, Rojith
Padmanandan, Arun
Hejjaji, Vittal
Hull, Leland
Samuel, Reema
Josephson, Richard
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Khetan, Aditya
Shah, Dharav
Srinivasan, Shuba
Balakrishnan, Rojith
Padmanandan, Arun
Hejjaji, Vittal
Hull, Leland
Samuel, Reema
Josephson, Richard
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description BACKGROUND: Low-middle-income countries face an enormous burden of tobacco-related illnesses. Counseling for tobacco cessation increases the chance of achieving quit outcomes, yet it remains underutilized in healthcare settings. OBJECTIVE: We tested the hypothesis that utilizing trained medical students to counsel hospitalized patients who use tobacco will lead to an increase in patient quit rates, while also improving medical student knowledge regarding smoking cessation counseling. DESIGN: Investigator-initiated, two-armed, multicenter randomized controlled trial conducted in three medical schools in India. PARTICIPANTS: Eligibility criteria included age 18–70 years, active admission to the hospital, and current smoking. INTERVENTION: A medical student–guided smoking cessation program, initiated in hospitalized patients and continued for 2 months after discharge. MAIN MEASURES: The primary outcome was self-reported 7-day point prevalence of smoking cessation at 6 months. Changes in medical student knowledge were assessed using a pre- and post-questionnaire delivered prior to and 12 months after training. KEY RESULTS: Among 688 patients randomized across three medical schools, 343 were assigned to the intervention group and 345 to the control group. After 6 months of follow up, the primary outcome occurred in 188 patients (54.8%) in the intervention group, and 145 patients (42.0%) in the control group (absolute difference, 12.8%; relative risk, 1.67; 95% confidence interval, 1.24–2.26; p < 0.001). Among 70 medical students for whom data was available, knowledge increased from a mean score of 14.8 (± 0.8) (out of a maximum score of 25) at baseline to a score of 18.1 (± 0.8) at 12 months, an absolute mean difference of 3.3 (95% CI, 2.3–4.3; p < 0.001). CONCLUSIONS: Medical students can be trained to effectively provide smoking cessation counseling to hospitalized patients. Incorporating this program into the medical curriculum can provide experiential training to medical students while improving patient quit rates. TRIAL REGISTRATION: URL: http://www.clinicaltrials.gov. Unique identifier: NCT03521466. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s11606-023-08243-y.
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spelling pubmed-102472642024-11-01 Effectiveness of Medical Student Counseling for Hospitalized Patients Addicted to Tobacco (MS-CHAT): a Randomized Controlled Trial Satish, Priyanka Khetan, Aditya Shah, Dharav Srinivasan, Shuba Balakrishnan, Rojith Padmanandan, Arun Hejjaji, Vittal Hull, Leland Samuel, Reema Josephson, Richard J Gen Intern Med Original Research BACKGROUND: Low-middle-income countries face an enormous burden of tobacco-related illnesses. Counseling for tobacco cessation increases the chance of achieving quit outcomes, yet it remains underutilized in healthcare settings. OBJECTIVE: We tested the hypothesis that utilizing trained medical students to counsel hospitalized patients who use tobacco will lead to an increase in patient quit rates, while also improving medical student knowledge regarding smoking cessation counseling. DESIGN: Investigator-initiated, two-armed, multicenter randomized controlled trial conducted in three medical schools in India. PARTICIPANTS: Eligibility criteria included age 18–70 years, active admission to the hospital, and current smoking. INTERVENTION: A medical student–guided smoking cessation program, initiated in hospitalized patients and continued for 2 months after discharge. MAIN MEASURES: The primary outcome was self-reported 7-day point prevalence of smoking cessation at 6 months. Changes in medical student knowledge were assessed using a pre- and post-questionnaire delivered prior to and 12 months after training. KEY RESULTS: Among 688 patients randomized across three medical schools, 343 were assigned to the intervention group and 345 to the control group. After 6 months of follow up, the primary outcome occurred in 188 patients (54.8%) in the intervention group, and 145 patients (42.0%) in the control group (absolute difference, 12.8%; relative risk, 1.67; 95% confidence interval, 1.24–2.26; p < 0.001). Among 70 medical students for whom data was available, knowledge increased from a mean score of 14.8 (± 0.8) (out of a maximum score of 25) at baseline to a score of 18.1 (± 0.8) at 12 months, an absolute mean difference of 3.3 (95% CI, 2.3–4.3; p < 0.001). CONCLUSIONS: Medical students can be trained to effectively provide smoking cessation counseling to hospitalized patients. Incorporating this program into the medical curriculum can provide experiential training to medical students while improving patient quit rates. TRIAL REGISTRATION: URL: http://www.clinicaltrials.gov. Unique identifier: NCT03521466. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s11606-023-08243-y. Springer International Publishing 2023-06-07 2023-11 /pmc/articles/PMC10247264/ /pubmed/37286774 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11606-023-08243-y Text en © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Society of General Internal Medicine 2023. Springer Nature or its licensor (e.g. a society or other partner) holds exclusive rights to this article under a publishing agreement with the author(s) or other rightsholder(s); author self-archiving of the accepted manuscript version of this article is solely governed by the terms of such publishing agreement and applicable law.
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Satish, Priyanka
Khetan, Aditya
Shah, Dharav
Srinivasan, Shuba
Balakrishnan, Rojith
Padmanandan, Arun
Hejjaji, Vittal
Hull, Leland
Samuel, Reema
Josephson, Richard
Effectiveness of Medical Student Counseling for Hospitalized Patients Addicted to Tobacco (MS-CHAT): a Randomized Controlled Trial
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title_fullStr Effectiveness of Medical Student Counseling for Hospitalized Patients Addicted to Tobacco (MS-CHAT): a Randomized Controlled Trial
title_full_unstemmed Effectiveness of Medical Student Counseling for Hospitalized Patients Addicted to Tobacco (MS-CHAT): a Randomized Controlled Trial
title_short Effectiveness of Medical Student Counseling for Hospitalized Patients Addicted to Tobacco (MS-CHAT): a Randomized Controlled Trial
title_sort effectiveness of medical student counseling for hospitalized patients addicted to tobacco (ms-chat): a randomized controlled trial
topic Original Research
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10247264/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37286774
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11606-023-08243-y
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