Contact information
Type
Scientific
Primary contact
Dr Hein de Vries
ORCID ID
Contact details
Maastricht University
Department of Health Promotion and Health Education
P.O. Box 616
Maastricht
6200 MD
Netherlands
+31 (0)43 388 2406
hein.devries@gvo.unimaas.nl
Additional identifiers
EudraCT number
ClinicalTrials.gov number
Protocol/serial number
ZonMw: project id 2200002; NTR465
Study information
Scientific title
Acronym
Study hypothesis
One tailored letter on smoking cessation will lead to more quit attempts at follow-up.
Ethics approval
Received from the local medical ethics committee
Study design
Randomised, two-arm, controlled trial
Primary study design
Interventional
Secondary study design
Randomised controlled trial
Trial setting
Not specified
Trial type
Treatment
Patient information sheet
Condition
Smoking cessation
Intervention
Adult smokers will receive either a tailored letter about smoking cessation (experimental group) or a thank you letter for participating (control group).
Intervention type
Other
Phase
Not Specified
Drug names
Primary outcome measure
1. Quitting activity between baseline and follow-up
2. Abstinence between baseline and follow-up
Secondary outcome measures
No secondary outcome measures
Overall trial start date
01/01/1999
Overall trial end date
31/12/2005
Reason abandoned (if study stopped)
Eligibility
Participant inclusion criteria
Having smoked in the last 7 days
Participant type
Patient
Age group
Adult
Gender
Both
Target number of participants
1500
Participant exclusion criteria
Younger than 17 years of age
Recruitment start date
01/01/1999
Recruitment end date
31/12/2005
Locations
Countries of recruitment
Netherlands
Trial participating centre
Maastricht University
Maastricht
6200 MD
Netherlands
Funders
Funder type
Research organisation
Funder name
The Netherlands Organisation for Health Research and Development (ZonMw) (The Netherlands)
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
Results in http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16374236
Publication citations
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Results
Hoving C, Mudde AN, de Vries H, Intention to adopt a smoking cessation expert system within a self-selected sample of Dutch general practitioners., Eur. J. Cancer Prev., 2006, 15, 1, 82-86.