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Pilot Testing a Digital Intervention to Improve Smoking Cessation in Persons With Serious Mental Illness
Sponsor: University of Maryland, Baltimore
Summary
All patients with serious mental illness are abstinent while in the hospital for a psychiatric admission yet almost all return to smoking after discharge. The investigators propose to test a digital intervention adapted to the needs of SMI smokers and to being introduced in the inpatient psychiatric setting. Such an intervention could bridge the inpatient to outpatient gap in cessation services and will help people remain abstinent following hospital discharge.
Key Details
Gender
All
Age Range
18 Years - Any
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment
59
Start Date
2022-09-06
Completion Date
2024-03-25
Last Updated
2026-07-15
Healthy Volunteers
No
Conditions
Interventions
BecomeAnEX
This research study is focused on a smoking cessation program called BecomeAnEx. We are studying how to adapt BecomeAnEx for people with a mental health disorder who want to reduce or quit their tobacco smoking. BecomeAnEx includes a website that provides education about smoking and quitting. It also has a text messaging program that delivers personalized information. Persons in the program have access to real-time digital coaching with a remote coach who has experience helping people quit smoking. In addition, the program has an on-line community of current and former smokers that can provide support and encouragement.
Usual Care
Usual care represents what hospitalized psychiatric patients normally receive in terms of smoking cessation: brief individual counseling, NRT during the hospital stay and a prescription for NRT at discharge (consistent with standard hospital procedures), and referral to the MD quitline.
Locations (2)
Melanie Bennett
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
University of Maryland School of Medicine
Baltimore, Maryland, United States