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Combining intensive practice nurse counselling or brief general practitioner advice with varenicline for smoking cessation in primary care: Study protocol of a pragmatic randomized controlled trial
- Source :
- Contemporary Clinical Trials, 41, 298-312. Elsevier Science, Contemporary clinical trials, 41, 298-312. Elsevier
- Publication Year :
- 2015
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Abstract
- IntroductionCombining behavioural support and pharmacotherapy is most effective for smoking cessation and recommended in clinical guidelines. Despite that smoking cessation assistance from the general practitioner can be effective, dissemination of clinical practice guidelines and efforts on upskilling has not lead to the routine provision of smoking cessation advice among general practitioners. Intensive counselling from the practice nurse could contribute to better smoking cessation rates in primary care. However, the effectiveness of intensive counselling from a practice nurse versus usual care from a general practitioner in combination with varenicline is still unknown.Materials and methodsA pragmatic randomized controlled trial was conducted comparing: (a) intensive individual counselling delivered by a practice nurse and (b) brief advice delivered by a general practitioner; both groups received 12-weeks of open-label varenicline. A minimum of 272 adult daily smoking participants were recruited and treated in their routine primary care setting. The primary outcome was defined as prolonged abstinence from weeks 9 to 26, biochemically validated by exhaled carbon monoxide. Data was analysed blinded according to the intention-to-treat principle and participants with missing data on their smoking status at follow-up were counted as smokers. Secondary outcomes included: one-year prolonged abstinence, short-term incremental cost-effectiveness, medication adherence, and baseline predictors of successful smoking cessation.DiscussionThis trial is the first to provide scientific evidence on the effectiveness, cost-effectiveness, and potential mechanisms of action of intensive practice nurse counselling combined with varenicline under real-life conditions. This paper explains the methodology of the trial and discusses the pragmatic and/or explanatory design aspects.Trial RegistrationDutch Trial Register NTR3067.
- Subjects :
- Counseling
medicine.medical_specialty
medicine.medical_treatment
General Practice
Motivational interviewing
law.invention
chemistry.chemical_compound
Pharmacotherapy
Randomized controlled trial
law
medicine
Humans
Pharmacology (medical)
Nicotinic Agonists
Varenicline
Protocol (science)
Advanced Practice Nursing
Primary Health Care
business.industry
Smoking
General Medicine
Nicotine replacement therapy
Treatment Outcome
chemistry
Physical therapy
Smoking cessation
Smoking Cessation
business
Incremental cost-effectiveness ratio
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 15517144
- Volume :
- 41
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Contemporary Clinical Trials
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....7aecff18a456545a87f787f49103dced