Telephone Care Coordination for Smokers in VA Mental Health Clinics
| Status: | Archived |
|---|---|
| Conditions: | Smoking Cessation |
| Therapuetic Areas: | Pulmonary / Respiratory Diseases |
| Healthy: | No |
| Age Range: | Any |
| Updated: | 7/1/2011 |
| Start Date: | November 2009 |
| End Date: | June 2012 |
Telephone Care Coordination for Smokers in Mental Health Clinics
The purpose of this study is to evaluate whether a smoking cessation telephone care
coordination program is effective and feasible in VA Mental Health Clinics.
Smoking is the leading preventable cause of death in the United States and is a particular
problem among VA users and among persons with a diagnosed mental illness. The prevalence of
smoking among VA mental health patients has remained high, in part because smoking cessation
treatment rates have remained low. Telephone-based counseling represents the most feasible
approach to increasing smoking cessation treatment among VA patients. The approach used in
this study has been used very effectively in a primary care-based population that includes a
large percentage of mental health patients. This project would target the program
specifically at patients seen in VA Mental Health Clinics.
We found this trial at
1
site
Click here to add this to my saved trials
