| Trial name or title |
The MiQuit study: feasibility trial of a computer‐tailored smoking cessation intervention providing individualised written and mobile phone text message support to pregnant smokers |
| Methods |
RCT (study duration 12 weeks) |
| Participants |
Pregnant smokers aged at least 16 yrs, smoking at the time of booking for maternity care, owns or has the use of a mobile phone. Target sample size: 200 |
| Interventions |
2 arms: 1 arm ‐ Standard care and a generic smoking cessation self‐help leaflet.
2. Arm ‐ Standard care and an individually tailored smoking cessation self‐help leaflet plus 12 weeks of individualised mobile phone text message smoking cessation support |
| Outcomes |
Primary outcomes (at 12 weeks): Self‐reported ratings of acceptability, usefulness and disengagement from the intervention.Secondary outcomes: Self‐reported and biochemically validated 7‐day point prevalence smoking rates, requested by text message at 4, 7 and 12 weeks; Self‐reported repeated 7‐day point prevalence rates across three time points, requested by text message at 4, 7 and 12 weeks; Infant birth weight, ascertained approximately 30 weeks after enrolment (depending upon number of weeks gestation at recruitment); Smoking status at delivery; Gestation at delivery |
| Starting date |
November 2008 |
| Contact information |
Prof Stephen Sutton, General Practice & Primary Care Research Unit
Institute of Public Health
University of Cambridge
Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge, UK, srs34@medschl.cam.ac.uk |
| Notes |
Completed but results not published yet |
