Text Messaging to Engage and Retain Veterans in Smoking Cessation Counseling
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Brief summary
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Tobacco-related diseases account for a significant portion of all VA healthcare costs and are a detriment to the health and quality of life of our Veterans. Despite progress in instituting tobacco screenings and treatment referral, most Veterans still do not receive the most effective strategy to help them quit smoking - pharmacotherapy combined with behavioral coaching. This study builds on findings from population health and mobile interventions to help more Veterans receive evidence-based tobacco treatment. The investigators propose to test the effect of two types of text messaging in combination with telephone cessation counseling: 1) pre-counseling text messages to increase enrollment in counseling, and 2) ongoing texts for those who start counseling that provide appointment reminders and support between sessions to increase adherence to counseling. This study supports multiple goals of the VA's Blueprint for Excellence. Results will directly inform decision-making and population-based care models for tobacco treatment.
Study identification
- NCT ID
- NCT03177265
- Recruitment status
- Completed
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Not applicable
- Enrollment
- 432 participants
Conditions and interventions
Conditions
Interventions
- Text messaging prior to first counseling call Behavioral
- Text-to-Enhance Behavioral
- Mail Notice Behavioral
- Telephone Counseling Behavioral
Behavioral
Eligibility (public fields only)
- Age range
- 18 Years and older
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Healthy volunteers not accepted
This page does not interpret eligibility. Detailed inclusion and exclusion criteria are on the official ClinicalTrials.gov record.
Study timeline
- Start date
- Nov 7, 2018
- Primary completion
- Oct 31, 2021
- Completion
- Oct 31, 2021
- Last update posted
- Nov 8, 2021
2018 – 2021
United States locations
- U.S. sites
- 2
- U.S. states
- 2
- U.S. cities
- 2
| Facility | City | State | ZIP | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| VA San Diego Healthcare System, San Diego, CA | San Diego | California | 92161 | — |
| Manhattan Campus of the VA NY Harbor Healthcare System, New York, NY | New York | New York | 10010 | — |
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