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NCT03904186Completed

Effectiveness of an Integrated Treatment to Address Smoking Cessation and Anxiety/ Depression in People Living With HIV

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 9 Feb 2026

Brief summary (registry, in English)

Smokers living with HIV represent a major health disparity population in the United States and the world more generally. Major contributing factors to the maintenance and relapse of smoking among smokers living with HIV include increased exposure to multiple stressors associated with HIV, which often exacerbates anxiety/depression. In a previous project, the feasibility, acceptability, and initial efficacy of a 9-session, cognitive-behavioral-based intervention to address smoking cessation by reducing anxiety and depression via specific emotional vulnerabilities (anxiety sensitivity, distress tolerance, and anhedonia) was tested against an enhanced standard of care in a pilot randomized controlled trial (NCT01393301). It was found that when compared to a brief enhanced treatment as usual control, patients in the intervention achieved higher short-term and long-term smoking abstinence rates. In this project, the investigators seek to test this same intervention in a fully powered, 3-arm efficacy/effectiveness trial. The goal of this study is to randomize 180 smokers across three sites to test the efficacy/effectiveness of the intervention at increasing point prevalence abstinence by reducing anxiety and depression at a 1-month follow-up (the end of treatment timepoint/ approximately 1-month post quit day) and a 6-month follow-up (approximately 6-months post quit day).

Status (registry)
Completed
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
131 (actual)
First submitted
3 Apr 2019
Start date
19 Dec 2019
Primary completion date
1 Dec 2024
Lead sponsor
Massachusetts General Hospital
Diseases
HIV
NCT number
NCT03904186

What you commit to

  • Study type: Interventional
  • Participants enrolled: 131
  • From 19 Dec 2019 to the primary completion date, 1 Dec 2024
  • 3 sites in 1 country
  • Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them

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Who cannot take part

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Prior treatment

  • Cognitive behavioral therapy for anxiety within the past year

Other illness

  • Untreated or unstable psychiatric disorders

Other

  • Habitual use of tobacco products other than cigarettes
  • Current smoking cessation treatment
  • Insufficient command of the English language

Who the study is looking for

  • 18-79 years old
  • Daily Smoker
  • Motivated to quit smoking
  • HIV-positive
  • Capability and willingness to give written informed consent

Age in the registry: 18 years to 79 years · Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers

Full criteria on ClinicalTrials.gov

Sites (3)

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SiteCityCountrySite status
Fenway Community Health
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BostonUnited StatesUnknown status
Massachusetts General Hospital
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BostonUnited StatesUnknown status
Thomas Street Health Center
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HoustonUnited StatesUnknown status

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