Clinical trial · Observational

Cancer Risk Reduction Through Combined Treatment for Tobacco and Alcohol Use

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Summary

Brief summary (as posted)

RATIONALE: A counseling program that motivates patients to stop smoking and drinking may reduce the risk of oral cancer. It is not yet known whether motivational stop smoking counseling or motivational stop-smoking and stop drinking counseling is more effective in helping patients stop smoking and drinking. PURPOSE: This randomized clinical trial is studying how well treatment to stop smoking and drinking works in preventing oral cancer in smokers in Puerto Rico.

Conditions

Conditions (2)

Free-text conditions as registered, with the CancerIndex entity they were reconciled to and the match type.

Condition (as posted)	Mapped entity	Match	Confidence
Head and Neck Cancer	Malignant Head and Neck Neoplasm	ALIAS	0.90
Tobacco Use Disorder	—	UNRESOLVED	—

Interventions

Interventions (4)

Intervention	Type	Mapped drug	Match
counseling intervention	Other	—	UNRESOLVED
preventive intervention	Other	—	UNRESOLVED
questionnaire administration	Other	—	UNRESOLVED
smoking cessation intervention	Behavioral	—	UNRESOLVED

Design

Arms and outcomes

Arms (2)

label
MAPS+
description
MAPS+ (Motivation and Problem-Solving Plus): Counseling using specific treatment approach that focuses on combined smoking cessation and the reduction of at-risk alcohol use.
interventionNames
1. Behavioral: smoking cessation intervention
2. Other: counseling intervention
3. Other: preventive intervention
4. Other: questionnaire administration
label
MAPS
description
MAPS (Motivation and Problem-Solving): Counseling treatment approach with a focus on smoking cessation.
interventionNames
1. Behavioral: smoking cessation intervention
2. Other: questionnaire administration

Primary outcomes (2)

measure
Participant At-risk drinking status
timeFrame

Eligibility

Eligibility (as posted)

Sex: All
Minimum age: 18 Years

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DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS:

* Current daily smoker
* Called the Puerto Rico Quitline
* Motivated to quit smoking in the next 30 days
* Exhibits at least one of the following criteria for at-risk drinking:

  * An average of ≥ 2 alcoholic beverages/day for men or ≥ 1 drink/day for women in the past 30 days
  * Two or more occasions of consuming ≥ 5 alcoholic beverages/day for men or ≥ 4 drinks/day for women in the past 30 days
  * Driving after consuming ≥ 3 drinks in the past 30 days
* Score of ≤ 15 on the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test

PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS:

* Not pregnant
* Residing in Puerto Rico
* Not currently incarcerated or in jail
* No other household member enrolled in this study
* Viable telephone number and home address
* Willing to provide the names, addresses, and phone numbers of up to 3 collaterals

PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY:

* Not specified

References

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