Status:

COMPLETED

Pilot Testing a Digital Intervention to Improve Smoking Cessation in Persons With Serious Mental Illness

Lead Sponsor:

University of Maryland, Baltimore

Collaborating Sponsors:

Sheppard Pratt Health System

Truth Initiative

Conditions:

Tobacco Cessation

Eligibility:

All Genders

18+ years

Phase:

NA

Brief Summary

All patients with serious mental illness are abstinent while in the hospital for a psychiatric admission yet almost all return to smoking after discharge. The investigators propose to adapt a digital ...

Detailed Description

Persons with serious mental illness (SMI) die on average 10-15 years earlier than those in the general population. Smoking is the strongest risk factor for their elevated mortality. Helping SMI smoker...

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • Age 18 or greater
  • Diagnosis of serious mental illness (schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, bipolar disorder, or major depression)
  • Current smoker \[prior to admission, smoked at least one cigarette or small cigar per day in the past month (unless restricted, e.g. due to ER/hospital visit) and smoked at least 100 cigarettes lifetime\]
  • Interested in remaining quit after hospital discharge or quitting within the following 30 days
  • Expected Internet use at least 3 times/week post-discharge and ownership of mobile device with text messaging plan post-discharge.
  • Discharge destination within 1-hour of SPH given that Aim 3 involves biochemical verification (carbon monoxide testing).
  • Reading competence as demonstrated by a score of \>= 37 on the Word Reading subtest of the Wide Range Achievement Test - 4th Edition (WRAT-4)168 to ensure the ability to engage in the intervention.

Exclusion

  • Intellectual disability (DSM5 317, 318), traumatic brain injury, or deafness.
  • Homeless prior to admission or anticipated to be homeless at discharge.
  • Discharge to a residential setting where smoking is prohibited.
  • Medical condition for which the use of nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) is contraindicated including pregnant, planning to become pregnant, or breastfeeding; within 4 weeks post myocardial infarction; severe arrhythmia, severe angina pectoris; peptic ulcer; severe renal failure; poorly controlled insulin-dependent diabetes; severely uncontrolled hypertension; peripheral vascular disease.

Key Trial Info

Start Date :

January 1 2021

Trial Type :

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation :

ACTUAL

End Date :

December 18 2024

Estimated Enrollment :

59 Patients enrolled

Trial Details

Trial ID

NCT04367506

Start Date

January 1 2021

End Date

December 18 2024

Last Update

January 23 2025

Active Locations (2)

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Melanie Bennett

Baltimore, Maryland, United States, 21021

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University of Maryland School of Medicine

Baltimore, Maryland, United States, 21201