Status:

COMPLETED

Combining Default Choices and a Decision Aid to Improve Tobacco Cessation

Lead Sponsor:

Center for Primary Care and Public Health (Unisante), University of Lausanne, Switzerland

Collaborating Sponsors:

Tobacco Control Fund Switzerland

Swiss Medical Association (FMH)

Conditions:

Smoking Cessation

Eligibility:

All Genders

18+ years

Phase:

NA

Brief Summary

The FIRST cluster randomized trial will evaluate the effect of 1) a training program encouraging general practitioners to offer smoking cessation treatment as a default choice to all current smokers c...

Detailed Description

Smoking cessation medications are underused in primary care, likely because general practitioners (GP) lack detailed knowledge about prescribing and the fact that smokers seen in primary care must "op...

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • Patient-level inclusion criteria:
  • Consider the GP they are seeing in consultation to be their primary care doctor
  • Use tobacco daily (cigarettes, cigars, smokeless tobacco)
  • ≥18 years of age at the time of inclusion
  • Patient-level exclusion criteria:
  • Consulting for an urgent complaint that precludes even a brief discussion of smoking cessation
  • Inability to follow the procedures of the study, e.g. unable to read French-language consent materials, severe psychiatric disorders, dementia, etc.
  • Previous enrolment in a smoking cessation trial \<1 year prior
  • Current daily user of a pharmacologic smoking cessation aid
  • GP-level inclusion criteria:
  • GP in private practice in French-speaking Switzerland (Vaud, Geneva, Jura, Neuchâtel, Fribourg or Valais) or metropolitan France
  • Primarily French-speaking patients with \>80 individual patients seen in a typical month
  • GP-level exclusion criteria:
  • Completed an intensive smoking cessation curriculum \<2 years prior (ie. at least half-day of training)
  • Have plans to retire or relocate outside of Switzerland or France in \<12 months

Exclusion

    Key Trial Info

    Start Date :

    June 15 2021

    Trial Type :

    INTERVENTIONAL

    Allocation :

    ACTUAL

    End Date :

    February 29 2024

    Estimated Enrollment :

    287 Patients enrolled

    Trial Details

    Trial ID

    NCT04868474

    Start Date

    June 15 2021

    End Date

    February 29 2024

    Last Update

    May 16 2024

    Active Locations (2)

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    1

    Maison de santé Mermoz

    Lyon, France

    2

    Unisante

    Lausanne, Canton of Vaud, Switzerland, 1011