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

Primary

• Recruitment Rates

  Ratio of patients enrolled in study to patients responding to advertisement or referred by providers, and ratio of patients enrolled to patients screened and potentially eligible for the study.

  Time frame: Measured from the date the first patient responds to advertisement or is referred to the study by providers until the date the last patient group begins the first session of the intervention, assessed up to 100 weeks.

• Feasibility of the DBT-ST brief intervention for cigarette smoking by patients with cancer

  Rate of completion of the eight proposed sessions by participants

  Time frame: Measured from the date the first patient group begins the first session of the intervention until the date the last patient group completes the eighth session of the intervention, assessed up to 100 weeks.

• Acceptability of the DBT-ST brief intervention for cigarette smoking by patients with cancer

  Quantitative (Likert scale) questions to assess patient experience of intervention

  Time frame: For each patient group, measured at weeks 1 through 8 of the intervention and at 1 month follow-up, assessed up to 100 weeks.

• Fidelity of the DBT-ST brief intervention for cigarette smoking by patients with cancer

  Interventionist adherence to intervention manual will be assessed by having an independent reviewer select 50% of the audiotaped group sessions (the total depends on the number of groups) and complete a checklist of 25 intervention items (yes/no) to see whether the interventionist performed the item

  Time frame: Measured beginning 1 month after the date of week 8 of the final patient group participating in the intervention, assessed up to 6 months.