Contact information
Type
Scientific
Primary contact
Prof Therese Marteau
ORCID ID
Contact details
Department of Academic Psychiatry
F05 Thomas Guy House
Guy's Hospital
St Thomas Street
London
SE1 9RT
United Kingdom
+44(0)20 7188 0192
therese.marteau@kcl.ac.uk
Additional identifiers
EudraCT number
ClinicalTrials.gov number
Protocol/serial number
N0013146158
Study information
Scientific title
Acronym
Study hypothesis
The aim of this investigation is to establish whether showing patients images of their own atherosclerotic arteries will motivate change in the patient's thoughts regarding their smoking habits. Do patients feel more motivated to stop smoking when they are visually confronted with the concrete damage that their smoking has incurred?
Ethics approval
Not provided at time of registration
Study design
Pilot randomised controlled trial
Primary study design
Interventional
Secondary study design
Randomised controlled trial
Trial setting
Not specified
Trial type
Not Specified
Patient information sheet
Condition
Mental and Behavioural Disorders: Smoking cessation
Intervention
Vascular outpatients are randomly allocated to either be shown a picture of their own damaged arteries, an index of vascular disease and a picture of a healthy artery or a control group without this intervention. Questionnaires regarding the patients intention to stop smoking will be completed by both groups.
Intervention type
Other
Phase
Not Specified
Drug names
Primary outcome measure
Patients' intention to stop smoking.
Secondary outcome measures
Not provided at time of registration
Overall trial start date
15/03/2004
Overall trial end date
15/06/2005
Reason abandoned (if study stopped)
Eligibility
Participant inclusion criteria
Adult smokers (at least 1 cigarette per day) attending an outpatient vascular clinic at Guy's Hospital.
Participant type
Patient
Age group
Adult
Gender
Not Specified
Target number of participants
60-80 subjects required
Participant exclusion criteria
1. Inability to give informed consent
2. Understand the questionnaire or the nature of the ultrasound
Recruitment start date
15/03/2004
Recruitment end date
15/06/2005
Locations
Countries of recruitment
United Kingdom
Trial participating centre
Department of Academic Psychiatry
London
SE1 9RT
United Kingdom
Sponsor information
Organisation
Record Provided by the NHSTCT Register - 2006 Update - Department of Health
Sponsor details
The Department of Health
Richmond House
79 Whitehall
London
SW1A 2NL
United Kingdom
+44 (0)20 7307 2622
dhmail@doh.gsi.org.uk
Sponsor type
Government
Website
Funders
Funder type
Government
Funder name
Guy's and St. Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust (UK), Own Account NHS R&D Support Funding
Alternative name(s)
Funding Body Type
Funding Body Subtype
Location
Results and Publications
Publication and dissemination plan
Not provided at time of registration
Intention to publish date
Participant level data
Not provided at time of registration
Basic results (scientific)
Publication list
2007 results in http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17456286
Publication citations
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Results
Shahab L, Hall S, Marteau T, Showing smokers with vascular disease images of their arteries to motivate cessation: a pilot study., Br J Health Psychol, 2007, 12, Pt 2, 275-283, doi: 10.1348/135910706X109684.