Financial Incentives for Homeless Smokers: A Community-based RCT
Status:
Suspended
Trial end date:
2024-03-01
Target enrollment:
Participant gender:
Summary
This community-based randomized controlled trial will test the effect of contingent financial
rewards on smoking abstinence among homeless-experienced adult cigarette smokers.
Participants will be recruited from 3 Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program locations:
a shelter clinic, a day center clinic, and a medical center clinic. All participants will be
offered a varenicline prescription and tobacco coaching. Incentive arm participants will
receive escalating financial rewards for saliva cotinine levels <30 ng/ml, assessed 14 times
over 24 weeks. Embedded qualitative interviews will explore the mechanisms of on-treatment
and post-treatment effects of financial incentives on smoking abstinence in the context of
homelessness.
Phase:
N/A
Details
Lead Sponsor:
Massachusetts General Hospital
Collaborators:
National Cancer Institute (NCI) National Institutes of Health (NIH)