NCT02351609

Patient Navigation and Financial Incentives to Promote Smoking Cessation

Completed NA Last updated 5 October 2017

What this trial tests

NA trial testing Intervention in Smoking Cessation in 352 participants. Completed in 1 October 2017.

Timeline

1 May 2015

Primary endpoint
3 March 2017

1 October 2017

Quick facts

Lead sponsor	Boston Medical Center
Phase	NA
Status	Completed
Study type	INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation	randomized
Design	parallel
Masking	none
Primary purpose	other
Enrollment	352
Start date	1 May 2015
Primary completion	3 March 2017
Estimated completion	1 October 2017
Sites	1 location across United States

Drugs / interventions tested

• Intervention
• Enhanced Traditional Care control

Conditions studied

• Smoking Cessation — all drugs for Smoking Cessation →

Sponsor

Boston Medical Center

Who can join

18 and older, any sex, with Smoking Cessation. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.

Sponsor's own description

Cigarette smoking is a significant health threat. To eliminate disparities in cancer burden, smoking rates must be reduced among populations where smoking is disproportionately concentrated: those with low socioeconomic status (SES). The investigators will apply two methods that are being used in the field of health disparities to the challenge of promoting smoking cessation among low SES smokers. These include: 1) Patient navigation; patient navigators are often lay persons, working as paid employees, who guide patients through the health care system and 2) Financial incentives; investigators propose to provide monetary incentives: $250 for smoking cessation within 6 months after study enrollment, and $500 for an additional 6 months of abstinence after the initial cessation. The investigators will recruit/randomize 352 smokers to a randomized controlled trial comparing the combination of Patient Navigation (delivered over 6 months) and Financial Incentives versus Enhanced Traditional Care control condition (smoking cessation brochure/list of cessation resources). The RCT will take place among adult daily smokers seen in the past year at BMC primary care practices, with a primary outcome of smoking cessation at one year. Follow-up by telephone, for both groups, will occur 6, 12, and 18 months after enrollment.

Publications & conference data

2 peer-reviewed publications reference this trial (live from Europe PMC):

1. Effect of Patient Navigation and Financial Incentives on Smoking Cessation Among Primary Care Patients at an Urban Safety-Net Hospital: A Randomized Clinical Trial.
   Lasser KE, Quintiliani LM, Truong V, Xuan Z, et al · · 2017 · cited 47× · PMID 29084312 · DOI 10.1001/jamainternmed.2017.4372
2. Process evaluation of counseling delivered by a patient navigator in an efficacious smoking cessation intervention among low-income primary care patients.
   Quintiliani LM, Truong V, Ulrich ME, Murillo J, et al · · 2019 · PMID 31193812 · DOI 10.1016/j.abrep.2019.100176