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NCT04367506
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Pilot Testing a Digital Intervention to Improve Smoking Cessation in Persons With Serious Mental Illness

Sponsor: University of Maryland, Baltimore

View on ClinicalTrials.gov

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

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

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.

BEHAVIORAL

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