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Group Education Helps Smoking Cessation and Hypertension Control
Sponsor: Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine
Summary
Smoking elderly males with stage 1 and 2 hypertension who currently smoked at least one cigarette per day and were willing to quit smoke will be invited to this cluster randomized, controlled, interventional, open clinical trial. The investigators will provide participants with group education of smoking cessation and their blood pressure measured at clinic at the sixth month is the primary endpoint. The investigators aim to explore how group education of smoking cessation effects smoking cessation, hypertension control and cardiovascular events.
Official title: A Cluster Randomized Trial to Evaluate the Effect of Group Education on Smoking Cessation and Blood Pressure in Smoking Elderly Males With Stage 1 and 2 Hypertension
Key Details
Gender
MALE
Age Range
65 Years - 84 Years
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment
2000
Start Date
2022-10-12
Completion Date
2027-01-01
Last Updated
2022-10-03
Healthy Volunteers
Yes
Conditions
Interventions
group education
Group education is one of strategies and behavioural interventions of smoking cessation. Lectures, group meeting for mutual support, discussion of coping skills and suggestions for prevention relapse can help smokers quit smoking by providing support and encouragement from people in same condition.
conventional smoking cessation management
Including regular follow-up of smoking status and giving advice of smoking cessation