Tobacco-Focused Patient Navigation to Address Barriers to Utilization of Community-Based Smoking Cessation Services in Primary Care
| Status: | Active, not recruiting |
|---|---|
| Conditions: | Smoking Cessation |
| Therapuetic Areas: | Pulmonary / Respiratory Diseases |
| Healthy: | No |
| Age Range: | 18 - Any |
| Updated: | 2/8/2019 |
| Start Date: | April 2011 |
| End Date: | April 2020 |
Patient navigators have been shown to assist people seeking cancer screening and other
medical services. The purpose of this study is to see whether a patient navigator can link
smokers to available community resources shown to help smokers quit smoking.
medical services. The purpose of this study is to see whether a patient navigator can link
smokers to available community resources shown to help smokers quit smoking.
Inclusion Criteria:
- Age ≥ 18 years
- Self-reported current daily smoker, as verified with a portable alveolar carbon
monoxide (CO) analyzer (24 hour point prevalence); CO levels ≥ 8 ppm.
- English and/or Spanish-speaking
- Referred to the navigation program by their primary care clinician
- At baseline, participants report at least thinking about quitting (i.e., Contemplation
or Preparation stages of readiness to quit).
Exclusion Criteria:
- Serious, untreated psychiatric illness (e.g., schizophrenia,) or active substance
abuse likely to preclude adherence to the protocol
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