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Register: ANZCTR
Last refreshed on: 13 January 2020
Main ID:  ACTRN12615000165583
Date of registration: 19/02/2015
Prospective Registration: No
Primary sponsor: University of Wollongong
Public title: A stepped wedge cluster randomised controlled trial of a healthy lifestyle intervention for people attending residential substance abuse treatment
Scientific title: A stepped wedge cluster randomised controlled trial of a healthy lifestyle intervention for people attending residential substance abuse treatment
Date of first enrolment: 20/11/2013
Target sample size: 140
Recruitment status: Completed
URL:  https://anzctr.org.au/ACTRN12615000165583.aspx
Study type:  Interventional
Study design:  Purpose: Treatment; Allocation: Randomised controlled trial; Masking: Blinded (masking used);Assignment: Other;Type of endpoint: Efficacy;  
Phase:  Not Applicable
Countries of recruitment
Australia
Contacts
Name: Dr Peter Kelly   
Address:  School of Psychology, University of Wollongong, Northfields Avenue, Wollongong, NSW, 2500 Australia
Telephone: +61 2 42392382
Email: pkelly@uow.edu.au
Affiliation: 
Name: Dr Peter Kelly   
Address:  School of Psychology, University of Wollongong, Northfields Avenue, Wollongong, NSW, 2500 Australia
Telephone: +61 2 42392382
Email: pkelly@uow.edu.au
Affiliation: 
Key inclusion & exclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: (i) a current smoker, and (ii) attending The Salvation Army Recovery Service Centre and expected to be a client of the facility for the duration of the 5-week program.
Exclusion criteria: (i) people not meeting the eligibility criteria.

Age minimum: 18 Years
Age maximum: No limit
Gender: Both males and females
Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied
Mental Health - Addiction
Alcohol and other substance abuse;Mental Health;Cardiovascular disease;Cancer;
Alcohol and other substance abuse
Mental Health
Cardiovascular disease
Cancer
Cancer - Any cancer
Cardiovascular - Coronary heart disease
Intervention(s)
In addition to completing treatment as usual, participants in the Treatment condition will complete the Healthy Recovery program. The Healthy Recovery program is an 8-session group based healthy lifestyle intervention that was development for people attending residential substance abuse treatment. It is delivered over 5-week period, with two groups being conducted each week for the first 3-weeks, and then 1-group a week conducted during the next two weeks. The first group session is completed over 90 minutes, with subsequent group sessions completed over 60 minutes. The group focuses on helping participants to reduce their smoking, improve their diet and increase their level of physical activity. The intervention involves a combination of health focused psycho-education, goal setting, monitoring, motivational interviewing, and cognitive behavioural therapy. Participants are provided with pedometers to monitor their steps and these are used as a motivational tool for participants. Contingency management is also used to promote reductions in smoking. Where clinically indicated, participants are recommended to commence nicotine replacement therapy (NRT). The group sessions are co-facilitated by a Salvation Army Recovery Service Centre drug and alcohol worker and a member of the research team (i.e. Intern Psychologist or Clinical Psychologist). To track adherence to the intervention, group attendance logs are maintained. Participants are also asked to log of their health behaviours each day (i.e. number of cigarettes, servings of fruit and vegetables, steps walked, minutes of exercise). These logs are photocopied by the research staff and kept to monitor adherence.
Primary Outcome(s)
Number of cigarettes/day: assessed by the Opiate Treatment Index Tobacco subscale.
[8-weeks, 3-months and 6-months post intervention.]
Secondary Outcome(s)
Quality of Life: assessed by the WHO-8 Quality of Life Scale.[6-months post intervention]
Quit attempts: Partcipants are asked to report the number of serious quit attempts made since the previous assessment. The following explanation is read to participants to describe serious quit attempts: "By serious attempt I mean you decided that you would try to make sure you never smoked again. Please include any attempt that you are currently making and please include any successful attempt made since we last spoke".[8-weeks, 3-months and 6-months post intervention.]
Fruit and vegetable consumption: assessed using the fruit subscales taken from the Australian Recommended Food Score (ARFS) index.[8-weeks, 3-months and 6-months post intervention.]
Level of physical activity and minutes spent walking: assessed by the International Physical Activity Questionnaire.[8-weeks, 3-months and 6-months post intervention.]
Smoking point prevalent abstinence: 7-day smoking point prevalence abstience self reported by participants.[8-weeks, 3-months and 6-months post intervention.]
Alcohol and substance use: assessed by the Opiate Treatment Index.[8-weeks, 3-months and 6-months post intervention.]
Readiness to quit smoking: Smoking Stages of Change (Short Form)[8-weeks, 3-months and 6-months post intervention.]
Symptom distress: assessed by the Kessler-10.[8-weeks, 3-months and 6-months post intervention.]
Secondary ID(s)
Nil
Source(s) of Monetary Support
Cancer Institute, NSW
Secondary Sponsor(s)
Ethics review
Status: Approved
Approval date:
Contact:
University of Wollongong Human Research Ethics Committee
Results
Results available:
Date Posted:
Date Completed:
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