Management and Point-of-Care for Tobacco Dependence (PROMPT): a feasibility mixed methods community-based participatory action research project in Ottawa, Canada.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To determine the feasibility of a Community-Based Participatory Tobacco Dependence Strategy (PROMPT) in the inner city population of Ottawa (Canada).

Design

A feasibility mixed methods prospective cohort study following principles of community-based participatory action research.

Intervention

Recruited 80 people whouse drugs, followed them for 6 months while providing access to counselling, nicotine replacement therapy and peer-support in a community setting.

Setting

Community research office in downtown Ottawa, adjacent to low-income housing, shelter services and street-based drug consumption.

Primary outcome

Retention rate at 6-month follow-up.

Secondary outcome

Biochemically validated 7-day point prevalence smoking abstinence at 26 we

SUBMITTER: Pakhale S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5786139 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature