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Muslim communities learning about second-hand smoke (MCLASS): study protocol for a pilot cluster randomised controlled trial
BACKGROUND: In the UK, 40% of Bangladeshi and 29% of Pakistani men smoke cigarettes regularly compared to the national average of 24%. As a consequence, second-hand smoking is also widespread in their households which is a serious health hazard to non-smokers, especially children. Smoking restrictio...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3847687/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24034853 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1745-6215-14-295 |
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author | Ainsworth, Hannah Shah, Sarwat Ahmed, Faraz Amos, Amanda Cameron, Ian Fairhurst, Caroline King, Rebecca Mir, Ghazala Parrott, Steve Sheikh, Aziz Torgerson, David Thomson, Heather Siddiqi, Kamran |
author_facet | Ainsworth, Hannah Shah, Sarwat Ahmed, Faraz Amos, Amanda Cameron, Ian Fairhurst, Caroline King, Rebecca Mir, Ghazala Parrott, Steve Sheikh, Aziz Torgerson, David Thomson, Heather Siddiqi, Kamran |
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description | BACKGROUND: In the UK, 40% of Bangladeshi and 29% of Pakistani men smoke cigarettes regularly compared to the national average of 24%. As a consequence, second-hand smoking is also widespread in their households which is a serious health hazard to non-smokers, especially children. Smoking restrictions in households can help reduce exposure to second-hand smoking. This is a pilot trial of ‘Smoke Free Homes’, an educational programme which has been adapted for use by Muslim faith leaders, in an attempt to find an innovative solution to encourage Pakistani- and Bangladeshi-origin communities to implement smoking restrictions in their homes. The primary objectives for this pilot trial are to establish the feasibility of conducting such an evaluation and provide information to inform the design of a future definitive study. METHODS/DESIGN: This is a pilot cluster randomised controlled trial of ‘Smoke Free Homes’, with an embedded preliminary health economic evaluation and a qualitative analysis. The trial will be carried out in around 14 Islamic religious settings. Equal randomisation will be employed to allocate each cluster to a trial arm. The intervention group will be offered the Smoke Free Homes package (Smoke Free Homes: a resource for Muslim religious teachers), trained in its use, and will subsequently implement the package in their religious settings. The remaining clusters will not be offered the package until the completion of the study and will form the control group. At each cluster, we aim to recruit around 50 households with at least one adult resident who smokes tobacco and at least one child or a non-smoking adult. Households will complete a household survey and a non-smoking individual will provide a saliva sample which will be tested for cotinine. All participant outcomes will be measured before and after the intervention period in both arms of the trial. In addition, a purposive sample of participants and religious leaders/teachers will take part in interviews and focus groups. DISCUSSION: The results of this pilot study will inform the protocol for a definitive trial. TRIAL REGISTRATION: Current Controlled Trials ISRCTN03035510 |
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spelling | pubmed-38476872013-12-04 Muslim communities learning about second-hand smoke (MCLASS): study protocol for a pilot cluster randomised controlled trial Ainsworth, Hannah Shah, Sarwat Ahmed, Faraz Amos, Amanda Cameron, Ian Fairhurst, Caroline King, Rebecca Mir, Ghazala Parrott, Steve Sheikh, Aziz Torgerson, David Thomson, Heather Siddiqi, Kamran Trials Study Protocol BACKGROUND: In the UK, 40% of Bangladeshi and 29% of Pakistani men smoke cigarettes regularly compared to the national average of 24%. As a consequence, second-hand smoking is also widespread in their households which is a serious health hazard to non-smokers, especially children. Smoking restrictions in households can help reduce exposure to second-hand smoking. This is a pilot trial of ‘Smoke Free Homes’, an educational programme which has been adapted for use by Muslim faith leaders, in an attempt to find an innovative solution to encourage Pakistani- and Bangladeshi-origin communities to implement smoking restrictions in their homes. The primary objectives for this pilot trial are to establish the feasibility of conducting such an evaluation and provide information to inform the design of a future definitive study. METHODS/DESIGN: This is a pilot cluster randomised controlled trial of ‘Smoke Free Homes’, with an embedded preliminary health economic evaluation and a qualitative analysis. The trial will be carried out in around 14 Islamic religious settings. Equal randomisation will be employed to allocate each cluster to a trial arm. The intervention group will be offered the Smoke Free Homes package (Smoke Free Homes: a resource for Muslim religious teachers), trained in its use, and will subsequently implement the package in their religious settings. The remaining clusters will not be offered the package until the completion of the study and will form the control group. At each cluster, we aim to recruit around 50 households with at least one adult resident who smokes tobacco and at least one child or a non-smoking adult. Households will complete a household survey and a non-smoking individual will provide a saliva sample which will be tested for cotinine. All participant outcomes will be measured before and after the intervention period in both arms of the trial. In addition, a purposive sample of participants and religious leaders/teachers will take part in interviews and focus groups. DISCUSSION: The results of this pilot study will inform the protocol for a definitive trial. TRIAL REGISTRATION: Current Controlled Trials ISRCTN03035510 BioMed Central 2013-09-13 /pmc/articles/PMC3847687/ /pubmed/24034853 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1745-6215-14-295 Text en Copyright © 2013 Ainsworth et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Study Protocol Ainsworth, Hannah Shah, Sarwat Ahmed, Faraz Amos, Amanda Cameron, Ian Fairhurst, Caroline King, Rebecca Mir, Ghazala Parrott, Steve Sheikh, Aziz Torgerson, David Thomson, Heather Siddiqi, Kamran Muslim communities learning about second-hand smoke (MCLASS): study protocol for a pilot cluster randomised controlled trial |
title | Muslim communities learning about second-hand smoke (MCLASS): study protocol for a pilot cluster randomised controlled trial |
title_full | Muslim communities learning about second-hand smoke (MCLASS): study protocol for a pilot cluster randomised controlled trial |
title_fullStr | Muslim communities learning about second-hand smoke (MCLASS): study protocol for a pilot cluster randomised controlled trial |
title_full_unstemmed | Muslim communities learning about second-hand smoke (MCLASS): study protocol for a pilot cluster randomised controlled trial |
title_short | Muslim communities learning about second-hand smoke (MCLASS): study protocol for a pilot cluster randomised controlled trial |
title_sort | muslim communities learning about second-hand smoke (mclass): study protocol for a pilot cluster randomised controlled trial |
topic | Study Protocol |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3847687/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24034853 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1745-6215-14-295 |
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