A Novel Dialectical Behavior Therapy Brief Group Intervention for Cigarette Smoking by Patients With Cancer: An Open Clinical Trial

Trial statusRecruiting
Trial phaseNot applicable
Trial typeInterventional
Biological sexAll
Age18+
SponsorWake Forest University Health Sciences

About this trial

The purpose of this research study is to learn more about how Dialectical Behavior Therapy - Skills Training can help patients with cancer who smoke cigarettes cut down on or stop their smoking.

Eligibility criteria

Qualifiers

Smoke ≥1 cigarettes every day in the past 30 days per participant report.

Smoked at least 100 cigarettes (5 packs) in lifetime.

Confirmation of cancer diagnosis at any time.

Patient encounter with an AHWFBCCC provider within the last two years.

Disqualifiers

Patients actively receiving external tobacco use counseling or using tobacco cessation medications.

Prior experience with more than five sessions of DBT-ST.

Medical or psychiatric conditions limiting compliance with study requirements including suspected or reported cognitive impairment.

Self-reported use of any psychoactive substance [except marijuana and nicotine] within the last 30 days.

Trial design

Treatments tested in this trial

  • Dialectical Behavior Therapy -Skill Training brief intervention

Treatment groups

16 Participants
are divided into 1 treatment group

Sponsors and collaborators

Wake Forest University Health Sciences

Lead sponsor

Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist

Collaborator

National Cancer Institute (NCI)

Collaborator