Eligibility Module
The Eligibility Module contains detailed information about who can participate in the clinical trial. This includes eligibility criteria, age restrictions, gender requirements, healthy volunteer status, and study population descriptions, helping researchers understand who is eligible to participate in the study.
Eligibility Module path is as follows:
Study -> Protocol Section -> Eligibility Module
Eligibility Module
Ignite Creation Date:
2025-12-24 @ 4:32 PM
Ignite Modification Date:
2025-12-24 @ 4:32 PM
NCT ID:
NCT03521466
Eligibility Criteria:
Inclusion Criteria:
1. Patients age 18-70 years old, who are admitted to the medical, and if required surgical wards.
2. Patients must be current smokers (cigarettes and/or bidis) at the time of admission or report having smoked at all in the last 4 weeks prior to admission (to account for changes in behaviour during illness).
3. Patients living within 10 Km radius of the hospital.
Exclusion Criteria:
1. Unwilling to participate
2. Patients who use only non-smoked tobacco will be excluded.
3. Patients who are are daily alcohol users, daily cannabis or psychotropic drug users.
4. Patients who do not have a telephone/ unable to follow up
5. Patients unable to understand the local/common language
6. Patients with psychiatric conditions rendering them incapable of interacting with the providers
7. Medically unstable patients
8. Patients with expected hospital stay \<24 hours
9. Patients with life expectancy \< 12 months
10. Pregnant patients
11. Patients currently participating in a tobacco cessation program
12. Prior participation in this trial during another hospitalisation
Healthy Volunteers:
False
Sex:
ALL
Minimum Age:
18 Years
Maximum Age:
70 Years
Study:
NCT03521466
Study Brief:
Protocol Section:
NCT03521466