Title

Babies Living Safe and Smokefree
Multilevel Tobacco Intervention in Community Clinics for Underserved Families
  • Phase

    N/A
  • Study Type

    Interventional
  • Intervention/Treatment

    nicotine ...
  • Study Participants

    396
The purpose of this randomized controlled trial is to develop and test the efficacy of a multilevel, multimodal intervention designed to modify maternal smoking behavior to reduce children's exposure to secondhand tobacco smoke (primary outcome) and promote their smoking cessation (secondary outcome). Low-income mothers who smoke will be enrolled. Mothers will be recruited from the supplemental nutrition program, Women, Infants and Children (WIC) clinics. All mothers visiting WIC clinics will receive a clinic-level intervention, which consists of nutrition counselors following an "ask, advise, and refer" protocol to identify if their children are exposed to secondhand tobacco smoke, advise mothers who smoke about the harms of such exposure and the benefits of reducing exposure, and referring mothers to the trial. Screened eligible mothers will be consented and randomized to an attention control condition focused on nutrition (CTL) or to an experimental (EXP) multimodal behavioral intervention that integrates telebased counseling to promote the reduction of child secondhand smoke exposure (SHSE) and maternal smoking with an adjunct smoking cessation mobile app and nicotine replacement therapy use. The investigators will test the primary hypothesis that relative to children in the CTL condition, those in the EXP condition will have lower exposure SHSE as measured by mothers' reports and child cotinine levels. The investigators will also test the secondary hypothesis that relative to mothers in the CTL condition, those in the EXP condition will have higher bioverified 7-day point prevalence quit rates. In addition, the study will: (a) evaluate if specific psychosocial and behavioral factors-- social support, urge coping skills, self-efficacy, and SHSe protective behaviors--mediate the effects of the EXP intervention on outcomes and (b) explore whether other residential smokers, level of nicotine dependence, depressive/anxious symptoms, weight concerns, intervention dosage, and pregnancy status predict outcomes and moderate treatment effects.
Study Started
Feb 29
2016
Primary Completion
Oct 23
2019
Study Completion
Oct 23
2019
Results Posted
Mar 15
2022
Last Update
Mar 15
2022

Behavioral Ask, Advise, Refer

WIC clinic staff ask about children's secondhand smoke exposure (SHSe), advise about harms of SHSe, and refer to smoking cessation resources

Behavioral Telebased tobacco counseling

Telephone counseling to promote parent's smoking cessation and behaviors to protect children from secondhand tobacco smoke

Behavioral Telebased nutrition counseling

Telephone counseling to promote nutritious eating practices in the family.

Device Mobile phone smoking cessation application

Smartphone based application to support smoking cessation efforts

Device Mobile phone nutrition application

Smartphone based application to support healthy eating habits

Drug Nicotine polacrilex

Over the counter nicotine replacement therapy in gum or lozenge form.

  • Other names: nicotine gum, nicotine lozenge

AAR+Behavioral Intervention (EXP) Experimental

Ask Advise Refer (AAR): WIC clinic staff ask about children's secondhand smoke exposure (SHSe), advise about harms of SHSe, and refer to smoking cessation resources. Telebased tobacco counseling: Telephone counseling to promote parent's smoking cessation and behaviors to protect children from secondhand tobacco smoke. Mobile phone smoking cessation application: Smartphone based application to support smoking cessation efforts. Nicotine polacrilex: Over the counter nicotine replacement therapy in gum or lozenge form.

AAR+Attention Control Intervention (CTL) Active Comparator

Ask Advise Refer (AAR): WIC clinic staff ask about children's secondhand smoke exposure (SHSe), advise about harms of SHSe, and refer to smoking cessation resources. Telebased nutrition counseling: Telephone counseling to promote nutritious eating practices in the family. Mobile phone nutrition application: Smartphone based application to support healthy eating habits

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

English speaking
female
at least 18 years of age
parent or legal guardian of child under 6 yrs old who lives with them at least 4 days/wk
smokes

Exclusion Criteria:

non-nicotine drug dependence
active psychiatric disturbance (bipolar, schizophrenia, psychosis)
inadequate health literacy
pregnant
no smartphone

Summary

AAR+Behavioral Intervention (EXP)

AAR+Attention Control Intervention (CTL)

All Events

Event Type Organ System Event Term

Child Urine Cotinine

Child urine cotinine is a biomarker for assessing secondhand smoke exposure. The investigators anticipate the EXP group will evidence a greater reduction in child urine cotinine over time than the CTL group. Cotinine values were log transformed to normalize distributions.

AAR+Behavioral Intervention (EXP)

12 month follow-up

1.09
log transformed ng/mL (Mean)
Standard Deviation: 0.73

3 month follow-up

1.0
log transformed ng/mL (Mean)
Standard Deviation: 0.67

AAR+Attention Control Intervention (CTL)

12 month follow-up

1.0
log transformed ng/mL (Mean)
Standard Deviation: 0.68

3 month follow-up

0.97
log transformed ng/mL (Mean)
Standard Deviation: .63

Cigarettes/Day

Parental report of cigarettes child is exposed to each day in the home and car and other locations by all sources during the 7 days prior to assessment. The investigators anticipate the EXP group will evidence greater reductions in child secondhand smoke exposure over time than the CTL group.

AAR+Behavioral Intervention (EXP)

12 month follow-up

3.03
Cigarettes/day secondhand smoke exposure (Mean)
Standard Deviation: 5.14

3 month follow-up

3.0
Cigarettes/day secondhand smoke exposure (Mean)
Standard Deviation: 4.89

AAR+Attention Control Intervention (CTL)

12 month follow-up

3.81
Cigarettes/day secondhand smoke exposure (Mean)
Standard Deviation: 5.04

3 month follow-up

4.47
Cigarettes/day secondhand smoke exposure (Mean)
Standard Deviation: 6.08

Parent-reported Cotinine-verified 7-day Point Prevalence Abstinence

When a participant reports smoking abstinence, the investigators will bioverify their smoking status.

AAR+Behavioral Intervention (EXP)

12 month follow-up

3 month follow-up

AAR+Attention Control Intervention (CTL)

12 month follow-up

3 month follow-up

Total

396
Participants

Age, Continuous

30.11
years (Mean)
Standard Deviation: 6.52

Average cigarettes smoked per day

8.89
cigarettes smoked per day (Mean)
Standard Deviation: 5.43

Child (log) cotinine

.97
log transformed ng/mL (Mean)
Standard Deviation: .62

Have smoking restrictions in home

347
Participants

High school diploma or less

243
Participants

Living with spouse/partner

146
Participants

Meets depression cutoff on CESD

179
Participants

Other smokers live in home

198
Participants

Problem drinker on TWEAK scale

37
Participants

Ethnicity (NIH/OMB)

Race (NIH/OMB)

Region of Enrollment

Sex: Female, Male

End of Treatment/3 Month Follow-up

AAR+Behavioral Intervention (EXP)

AAR+Attention Control Intervention (CTL)

12 Month Follow-up

AAR+Behavioral Intervention (EXP)

AAR+Attention Control Intervention (CTL)

Drop/Withdrawal Reasons

AAR+Behavioral Intervention (EXP)

AAR+Attention Control Intervention (CTL)