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“Quitlink”—A Randomized Controlled Trial of Peer Worker Facilitated Quitline Support for Smokers Receiving Mental Health Services: Study Protocol

Introduction: Although smokers with severe mental illnesses (SSMI) make quit attempts at comparable levels to other smokers, fewer are successful in achieving smoking cessation. Specialized smoking cessation treatments targeting their needs can be effective but have not been widely disseminated. Tel...

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Autores principales: Baker, Amanda L., Borland, Ron, Bonevski, Billie, Segan, Catherine, Turner, Alyna, Brophy, Lisa, McCarter, Kristen, Kelly, Peter J., Williams, Jill M., Baird, Donita, Attia, John, Sweeney, Rohan, White, Sarah L., Filia, Sacha, Castle, David
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6434698/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30941063
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2019.00124
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author Baker, Amanda L.
Borland, Ron
Bonevski, Billie
Segan, Catherine
Turner, Alyna
Brophy, Lisa
McCarter, Kristen
Kelly, Peter J.
Williams, Jill M.
Baird, Donita
Attia, John
Sweeney, Rohan
White, Sarah L.
Filia, Sacha
Castle, David
author_facet Baker, Amanda L.
Borland, Ron
Bonevski, Billie
Segan, Catherine
Turner, Alyna
Brophy, Lisa
McCarter, Kristen
Kelly, Peter J.
Williams, Jill M.
Baird, Donita
Attia, John
Sweeney, Rohan
White, Sarah L.
Filia, Sacha
Castle, David
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description Introduction: Although smokers with severe mental illnesses (SSMI) make quit attempts at comparable levels to other smokers, fewer are successful in achieving smoking cessation. Specialized smoking cessation treatments targeting their needs can be effective but have not been widely disseminated. Telephone delivered interventions, including by quitlines, show promise. However, few SSMI contact quitlines and few are referred to them by health professionals. Mental health peer workers can potentially play an important role in supporting smoking cessation. This study will apply a pragmatic model using peer workers to engage SSMI with a customized quitline service, forming the “Quitlink” intervention. Methods: A multi-center prospective, cluster-randomized, open, blinded endpoint (PROBE) trial. Over 3 years, 382 smokers will be recruited from mental health services in Victoria, Australia. Following completion of baseline assessment, a brief intervention will be delivered by a peer worker. Participants will then be randomly allocated either to no further intervention, or to be referred and contacted by the Victorian Quitline and offered a targeted 8-week cognitive behavioral intervention along with nicotine replacement therapy (NRT). Follow-up measures will be administered at 2-, 5-, and 8-months post-baseline. The primary outcome is 6 months continuous abstinence from end of treatment with biochemical verification. Secondary outcomes include 7-day point prevalence abstinence from smoking, increased quit attempts, and reductions in cigarettes per day, cravings and withdrawal, mental health symptoms, and other substance use, and improvements in quality of life. We will use a generalized linear mixed model (linear regression for continuous outcomes and logistic regression for dichotomous outcomes) to handle clustering and the repeated measures at baseline, 2-, 5-, and 8-months; individuals will be modeled as random effects, cluster as a random effect, and group assignment as a fixed effect. Discussion: This is the first rigorously designed RCT to evaluate a specialized quitline intervention accompanied by NRT among SSMI. The study will apply a pragmatic model to link SSMI to the Quitline, using peer workers, with the potential for wide dissemination. Clinical Trial Registration: Trial Registry: The trial is registered with ANZCTR (www.anzctr.org.au): ACTRN12619000244101 prior to the accrual of the first participant and updated regularly as per registry guidelines. Trial Sponsor: University of Newcastle, NSW, Australia.
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spelling pubmed-64346982019-04-02 “Quitlink”—A Randomized Controlled Trial of Peer Worker Facilitated Quitline Support for Smokers Receiving Mental Health Services: Study Protocol Baker, Amanda L. Borland, Ron Bonevski, Billie Segan, Catherine Turner, Alyna Brophy, Lisa McCarter, Kristen Kelly, Peter J. Williams, Jill M. Baird, Donita Attia, John Sweeney, Rohan White, Sarah L. Filia, Sacha Castle, David Front Psychiatry Psychiatry Introduction: Although smokers with severe mental illnesses (SSMI) make quit attempts at comparable levels to other smokers, fewer are successful in achieving smoking cessation. Specialized smoking cessation treatments targeting their needs can be effective but have not been widely disseminated. Telephone delivered interventions, including by quitlines, show promise. However, few SSMI contact quitlines and few are referred to them by health professionals. Mental health peer workers can potentially play an important role in supporting smoking cessation. This study will apply a pragmatic model using peer workers to engage SSMI with a customized quitline service, forming the “Quitlink” intervention. Methods: A multi-center prospective, cluster-randomized, open, blinded endpoint (PROBE) trial. Over 3 years, 382 smokers will be recruited from mental health services in Victoria, Australia. Following completion of baseline assessment, a brief intervention will be delivered by a peer worker. Participants will then be randomly allocated either to no further intervention, or to be referred and contacted by the Victorian Quitline and offered a targeted 8-week cognitive behavioral intervention along with nicotine replacement therapy (NRT). Follow-up measures will be administered at 2-, 5-, and 8-months post-baseline. The primary outcome is 6 months continuous abstinence from end of treatment with biochemical verification. Secondary outcomes include 7-day point prevalence abstinence from smoking, increased quit attempts, and reductions in cigarettes per day, cravings and withdrawal, mental health symptoms, and other substance use, and improvements in quality of life. We will use a generalized linear mixed model (linear regression for continuous outcomes and logistic regression for dichotomous outcomes) to handle clustering and the repeated measures at baseline, 2-, 5-, and 8-months; individuals will be modeled as random effects, cluster as a random effect, and group assignment as a fixed effect. Discussion: This is the first rigorously designed RCT to evaluate a specialized quitline intervention accompanied by NRT among SSMI. The study will apply a pragmatic model to link SSMI to the Quitline, using peer workers, with the potential for wide dissemination. Clinical Trial Registration: Trial Registry: The trial is registered with ANZCTR (www.anzctr.org.au): ACTRN12619000244101 prior to the accrual of the first participant and updated regularly as per registry guidelines. Trial Sponsor: University of Newcastle, NSW, Australia. Frontiers Media S.A. 2019-03-19 /pmc/articles/PMC6434698/ /pubmed/30941063 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2019.00124 Text en Copyright © 2019 Baker, Borland, Bonevski, Segan, Turner, Brophy, McCarter, Kelly, Williams, Baird, Attia, Sweeney, White, Filia and Castle. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
spellingShingle Psychiatry
Baker, Amanda L.
Borland, Ron
Bonevski, Billie
Segan, Catherine
Turner, Alyna
Brophy, Lisa
McCarter, Kristen
Kelly, Peter J.
Williams, Jill M.
Baird, Donita
Attia, John
Sweeney, Rohan
White, Sarah L.
Filia, Sacha
Castle, David
“Quitlink”—A Randomized Controlled Trial of Peer Worker Facilitated Quitline Support for Smokers Receiving Mental Health Services: Study Protocol
title “Quitlink”—A Randomized Controlled Trial of Peer Worker Facilitated Quitline Support for Smokers Receiving Mental Health Services: Study Protocol
title_full “Quitlink”—A Randomized Controlled Trial of Peer Worker Facilitated Quitline Support for Smokers Receiving Mental Health Services: Study Protocol
title_fullStr “Quitlink”—A Randomized Controlled Trial of Peer Worker Facilitated Quitline Support for Smokers Receiving Mental Health Services: Study Protocol
title_full_unstemmed “Quitlink”—A Randomized Controlled Trial of Peer Worker Facilitated Quitline Support for Smokers Receiving Mental Health Services: Study Protocol
title_short “Quitlink”—A Randomized Controlled Trial of Peer Worker Facilitated Quitline Support for Smokers Receiving Mental Health Services: Study Protocol
title_sort “quitlink”—a randomized controlled trial of peer worker facilitated quitline support for smokers receiving mental health services: study protocol
topic Psychiatry
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6434698/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30941063
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2019.00124
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