The PROMPT Pilot Study

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2017-03-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

The PROMPT Pilot Study is a feasibility mixed methods prospective cohort study following principles of community-based participatory action research. The study recruited 80 people who use drugs and followed them for 6 months while providing access to counselling, nicotine replacement therapy and peer-support in a community setting. A notable reduction in average cigarette use per day (20.5 to 9.3) and illicit substance use (18.8%) was observed at study-end. PROMPT's patient engagement model is an effective harm-reduction strategy for the growing opioid use crisis and can improve the health outcomes of marginalised at-risk populations worldwide.

• Phase: N/A
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Ottawa Hospital Research Institute
• Treatments: Nicotine

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• currently living in Ottawa for at least 3 months prior to enrolment

• 16 years or older

• have used drugs in the past year (excluding marijuana and alcohol)

• have smoked tobacco in the past 7 days

Exclusion Criteria:

• consent declined (refusal from participant or decision maker)

• any person accessing addictions treatment (in-patient drug rehabilitation) and hence unavailable for follow-up

• any person currently or recently (in the past 30 days) enrolled in a smoking cessation program

• anyone with a terminal illness with a life expectancy of <3 months.