Integrating Financial Management Counseling and Smoking Cessation Counseling to Reduce Health and Economic Disparities in Low-Income Immigrants

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2021-04-30
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

This is a 24 month pilot project that will implement and evaluate an innovative program that integrates financial counseling with smoking cessation counseling for low-income immigrants.

• Phase: Phase 4
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: New York University School of Medicine; NYU Langone Health
• Treatments: Nicotine

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Smokes ≥5 cigarettes per day

• Born outside the U.S.

• Interested in receiving smoking and financial counseling

• Self-reported income below 200% of the current federal poverty level for a given household composition

• New York City resident

• English or Spanish language

• Able to provide informed consent, and

• Does not have a representative who manages his/her funds (to ensure the participant has the ability to manage household money). We will exclude participants who report being pregnant or breastfeeding (unable to receive NRT).

Hospital staff participants:

• Must be current medical or non-medical provider or administrator at Bellevue Hospital or New York University Lutheran Medical Center

Exclusion Criteria:

• We will exclude participants who report being pregnant or breastfeeding.