Interventional Study on Smoking Reduction in Psychiatry

Condition(s) studied

Investigational drug(s) / intervention(s)

TABAPSY: The Tabapsy intervention consists in a campaign to promote smoking cessation within the CMP, and an intervention to help people stop smoking which comprises of a) A general information meeting; b) An assessment workshop, to evaluate level of dependence using validated tests and establish a personalized cessation program based on the results obtained; c) Five thematic workshops to support cessation, covering 1/ nicotine replacement treatments, electronic cigarettes and other drug treatments available for smoking cessation, 2/ emotional management, 3/ weight gain, 4/ physical activities, and 5/ manual occupations; d) Peer support groups, based on the sharing of experiences, to encourage mutual aid and solidarity between people with mental disorders who are trying to quit smoking. The intervention relies on a facilitator specifically recruited to implement and run the intervention in the CMP. It is complemented by a website that will contain all the resources and information presented dur

Usual Care: Usual care corresponds to usual practices regarding smoking cessation activities in participating sectors. Those practices may vary (enquiring whether a patient is a smoker or not, offering smoking cessation if they are or only if the patient asks, etc.)

Study summary

The smoking rate among people with mental disorders is higher than in the general population. Greater exposure to the harmful effects of tobacco partly explains the major inequality in life expectancy observed among people with mental disorders who, depending on the disorder and the study, live 10 to 25 years less than the general population, a gap mainly due to the occurrence of cardiovascular and respiratory pathologies, notably bronchial cancers. However, tobacco reduction actions specifically targeting these people remain insufficiently developed, particularly in psychiatry where this addiction is often banalized and its treatment neglected.

The objective of this study is to evaluate an intervention ('Tabapsy') co-constructed with mental health services users, mental health professionals, and general practitioners and targeting adult patients followed in ambulatory psychiatry. The main objective is to evaluate the effectiveness of the intervention on short-term smoking cessation (cessation for at least 7 days) among regular smokers at 3 months. Secondary objectives include evaluation of its cost-effectiveness and implementation. To this end, a national cluster-randomized controlled study will be carried out, supplemented by qualitative interviews to study the implementation of the intervention.

Eligibility

Primary outcome measure(s)

• Short-term smoking cessation — 3 months
  Short-term smoking cessation corresponds to a smoking cessation of at least 7 days, assessed among regular smoker (at least one cigarette a day) included in the study.

Trial sites (22)

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