The Positively Quit Trial: Addressing Disproportionate Smoking Rates Among People Living With HIV
University of South Florida
Summary
The main goal of the present study is to determine if a smoking cessation program designed for people living with certain chronic conditions and delivered via videoconferencing groups works better than a control condition--a program that is not designed to help with smoking but that does have the same number of group contact hours as the other program (this program is called the Attention Matched Control condition; AMC) for helping people with certain health conditions stop smoking. People in both groups will receive brief advice to quit and an offer of nicotine replacement therapy patches (NRT), as well as 12 videoconferencing group sessions. The team will measure smoking behavior over a one-year period and compare smoking rates for the treatment condition against AMC to see if the treatment condition is better at getting people living with certain health conditions to quit smoking.
Description
Note: Public-facing information will not reveal that the study is specifically for people living with HIV; instead these documents refer to "people living with certain health conditions. This trial involves a highly stigmatized, vulnerable, and private group: people living with HIV. The team does not wish to make it known publicly that this trial is for people living with HIV, as that could lead to other people inadvertently learning someone's HIV-positive status, which would be a major privacy violation. For example, if a participant receives email or text from the Positively Quit Study, ther…
Eligibility
- Age range
- 18+ years
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- No
Inclusion Criteria: * greater than or equal to age 18 (as NRT is not FDA approved for adolescents) * self-report smoking cigarettes * positive cotinine test * motivated to quit * own a smart phone, laptop, desktop, or tablet computer * able to join group from a private space with Internet access * demonstrate the ability to connect to the HIPAA-compliant videoconferencing system, Zoom, over the internet h) speak English i) living in the US j) living with certain health conditions Exclusion Criteria: * pregnant, breastfeeding, or have other contraindications to NRT * receiving other tobacco…
Interventions
- BehavioralPositively Me
12 session smoking cessation intervention based on Social Cognitive Theory, designed for people with certain health conditions (8 primary sessions, followed by 4 booster sessions)
- BehavioralPositively Living
12 session healthy living intervention based on Social Cognitive Theory, designed for people with certain health conditions (8 primary sessions, followed by 4 booster sessions)
Location
- University of South Florida, College of NursingTampa, Florida