Grip&Health: Behavioural Intervention to Reduce Smoking, Stress and Improve Financial Health in Low-SES in Rotterdam (Grip&Health)
Smoking Cessation, Smoking, Cigarette, Smoking
About this trial
This is an interventional prevention trial for Smoking Cessation focused on measuring stress management, stress intervention, smoking intervention, lower SES, lower income
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria:
- perceive stress
- smoke
- poor financial health
Exclusion Criteria:
- follow other stress management course
- follow smoking cessation course
- receive help from debt services for their financial problems
- have health problems which hamper their ability to take part in the study
Sites / Locations
- Erasmus University CollegeRecruiting
Arms of the Study
Arm 1
Arm 2
Arm 3
Experimental
Experimental
No Intervention
Stress management program (SM)
Stress management + Buddy program (SM-B)
Control
The stress management program (SM) is a program which has been tailored to meet the specific needs of low-SES participants. The SM consists of 4-weekly sessions (1.5hours/session) and a follow-up session 8 weeks later. A core element of SM is its group-based format in which psycho-educative topics on stress responses and coping and motivation to stop smoking link up with cognitive and behavioural technique activities.
The stress management + buddy program (SM-B) includes the same psycho-educative topics and exercises, cognitive and behavioural technique activities as the SM condition. The SM-B in addition to SM utilises one-to-one support through a buddy selected by a participant. A buddy, 18 year or older is a student or a volunteer who is recruited and trained by Indigo Rijnmond. The buddy pairs up with a participant and provides the following: supports participant in managing and filling in tax/welfare papers; 2) helps a participant to get a grip over his/her personal finances; and 3) helps a participant to overcome daily barriers (eg. arranging childcare). Over the duration of the course, the buddy meets up 6 times with a participant every second week in a public area.
Participants in the control condition are instructed to continue with their normal daily behaviour. They will be invited to complete the questionnaires and objective measurements at the equivalent times as the intervention groups, thus at baseline, 4 weeks after baseline and 12 weeks after baseline. After the control period, participants in the control condition will be offered the intervention.